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Chinese symbol for “bias”

偏差
piān chā
deviation; bias

The closest CC-CEDICT match for bias is 偏差 (piān chā), defined as: deviation; bias.

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Characters and stroke order

偏 piān
slanting, inclined; prejudiced
radical 9 ⼈ · 11 strokes
差 chā
difference, gap; almost, nearly; in error; an officer
radical 48 ⼯ · 10 strokes

Other Chinese words for “bias”

WordPinyinMeaning
偏误 (偏誤)piān wùbias; error
偏见 (偏見)piān jiànprejudice; bias
成见 (成見)chéng jiànpreconceived idea; bias
偏心眼piān xīn yǎnbias; partiality

Related words

Other words that share a character with 偏差.

WordPinyinMeaning
偏见 (偏見)piān jiànprejudice; bias
偏偏piān piān(indicating that sth turns out just the opposite of what one would wish) unfortunately; as it happened; (indicating that sth is the opposite
偏向piān xiàngpartial towards sth; to prefer
偏离 (偏離)piān líto deviate; to diverge
偏好piān hàoto have a special liking (for sth)
差异 (差異)chā yìdifference; discrepancy
差不多chà bu duōalmost; nearly
差别 (差別)chā biédifference; distinction; disparity

See also: Japanese symbol for “bias”.

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.