偏見
へんけん · henken · JLPT N1 · noun
bias
偏 = lopsided/lean + 見 = view: a view that leans to one side
偏 means lopsided or leaning toward one side, and 見 means view or opinion. A 偏見 is a view tilted before the evidence has been looked at fairly.
偏 — person radical 亻 + 扁 (flat/biǎn)
A semantic-phonetic compound: 亻 (person) gives the meaning side, while 扁 supplies the sound. Originally suggesting a person standing off to one side, it came to mean 'slanted,' 'inclined,' or 'one-sided,' and by extension 'biased' or 'partial.'