HSK 6 · Work

评估 pínggū “to evaluate” in Chinese

Traditional 評估

What 评估 means

  1. to evaluate
  2. to assess
  3. assessment
  4. evaluation

How to say 评估

  • Pitch chart of the second tone: rises from mid to high, 3 to 5 on the five-level scale评píng2nd tone, rising
  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale估gū1st tone, high and level

评估 in a sentence

  1. 她能很准确地评估投资。

    Tā néng hěn zhǔnquè de pínggū tóuzī.

    She can assess investments very accurately.

    Sentence #802914 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 评估 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 评 (píng) with each of its parts in a different colour
评píngto discuss
  • 讠speech form of 言 · yánMeaning part
  • 平flat · píngSound part

讠 hints at the meaning (speech); 平 (píng) hints at the sound. Compare it with píng.

The character 估 (gū) with each of its parts in a different colour
估gūto estimate
  • 亻person form of 人 · rénMeaning part
  • 古old · gǔSound part

亻 hints at the meaning (person); 古 (gǔ) hints at the sound. Compare it with gū.

How to write 评估

评 7 strokes · 估 7 strokes

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评估 (pínggū) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 评估 (pínggū). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 评估

Words with 评

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FAQs

评估 (pínggū) means “to evaluate” or “to assess”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it pínggū: píng with a 2nd tone, then gū with a 1st tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 评估 is written 評估. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type pinggu with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 评估 from the suggestions. Typing pinggu into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
评估 is an HSK 6 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.