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Chinese symbol for “appraise”

评审
píng shěn
Traditional: 評審
to appraise; to evaluate; to judge

The closest CC-CEDICT match for appraise is 评审 (píng shěn), defined as: to appraise; to evaluate; to judge.

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Characters and stroke order

评 píng
to appraise, to criticize, to evaluate
radical 149 ⾔ · 7 strokes
审 shěn
to examine, to investigate; to judge; to try
radical 40 ⼧ · 8 strokes

Traditional forms

Other Chinese words for “appraise”

WordPinyinMeaning
鉴定 (鑑定)jiàn dìngto examine sth to determine its authenticity, quality, value etc; to appraise; to evaluate; to authenticate
褒贬 (褒貶)bāo biǎnto appraise; to pass judgment on
鉴价 (鑑價)jiàn jiàto appraise; appraisal
评判 (評判)píng pànto judge (a competition); to appraise
估价 (估價)gū jiàto value; to appraise

Related words

Other words that share a character with 评审.

WordPinyinMeaning
评论 (評論)píng lùnto comment on; to discuss
批评 (批評)pī píngto criticize; criticism; measure word: 次 (cì), 番 (fān)
评价 (評價)píng jiàto evaluate; to assess
评估 (評估)píng gūto evaluate; to assess
好评 (好評)hǎo píngfavorable criticism; positive evaluation
审查 (審查)shěn cháto examine; to investigate
审判 (審判)shěn pàna trial; to try sb
审议 (審議)shěn yì(of a committee etc) to deliberate; to consider; to discuss

See also: Japanese symbol for “appraise”.

Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.