What 评 means
评 means to comment on or judge. In Mandarin it is pronounced píng. 评论 means commentary; 影评 and 书评 mean film and book reviews.
Older Chinese texts use 評 as a heading for judgment, alongside 太史公曰, 赞, and 论. A Southern Song example in 《世说新语》, a collection of anecdotes and conversations, preserves the verb sense. Unicode’s 1993 date marks encoding, not origin.
Evaluative, but not inherently insulting.
评 alone does not say whether the judgment is praise or criticism.
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Who writes 评
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Don't confuse it with
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Combination ideas
2Commentary, or to comment on something.
A film review.
Questions people ask
1Why does 评 show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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How to type or find 评
- Search it as
- ping · píng · 评论 · 评价 · 评审 · 评判 · 影评 · 书评
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
评CSS
\8BC4How to type 评
With a Chinese pinyin input method, type ping, then choose 评 from the candidates.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
评
HTML hex
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CSS content
content: "\8BC4";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E8%AF%84
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On screen
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Code points
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JS .length
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UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.