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偏见 piānjiàn “prejudice” in Chinese

Traditional 偏見

What 偏见 means

  1. prejudice
  2. bias

How to say 偏见

  • Pitch chart of the first tone: stays high and level, 5 to 5 on the five-level scale偏piān1st tone, high and level
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale见jiàn4th tone, falling

偏见 in a sentence

  1. 我没有偏见。

    Wǒ méiyǒu piānjiàn.

    I’m not biased.

    Sentence #8928654 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  2. 他对外国人有偏见。

    Tā duì wàiguórén yǒu piānjiàn.

    He’s prejudiced against foreigners.

    Sentence #8928655 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

  3. 人们趋向于带着偏见看待他人。

    Rénmen qūxiàng yú dài zhe piānjiàn kàndài tārén.

    People tend to view others with bias.

    Sentence #1783884 from Tatoeba · translation adapted

How 偏见 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 偏 (piān) with each of its parts in a different colour
偏piānto lean
  • 亻person form of 人 · rénMeaning part
  • 扁flat · biǎnSound part

亻 hints at the meaning (person); 扁 (biǎn) hints at the sound. Compare it with piān.

The character 见 (jiàn) with each of its parts in a different colour
见jiànto see
  • 冂down box · jiōng
  • 儿legs · ér

Memory aidSimplified from 見: a big eye 目 on top of a person 儿: to see.

How to write 偏见

偏 11 strokes · 见 4 strokes

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

Words related to 偏见

Words with 偏

偏僻piānpì · remote偏差piānchā · deviation偏偏piānpiān · unexpectedly

Words with 见

看见kànjiàn · to see再见zàijiàn · goodbye听见tīngjiàn · to hear见jiàn · to see见面jiànmiàn · meet/see somebody见到jiàndào · to see不见bújiàn · to be missing遇见yùjiàn · to meet (by chance)常见chángjiàn · common意见yìjiàn · idea

More words: Ideas & Concepts

凝聚níngjù · to condense配套pèitào · to form a complete set偏差piānchā · deviation片断piànduàn · fragment品德pǐndé · moral character品质pǐnzhì · quality千方百计qiānfāngbǎijì · by every possible means前景qiánjǐng · prospects

FAQs

偏见 (piānjiàn) means “prejudice” or “bias”. It is an HSK 6 word.
Say it piānjiàn: piān with a 1st tone, then jiàn with a 4th 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, 偏见 is written 偏見. The pronunciation is the same.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type pianjian with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 偏见 from the suggestions. Typing pianjian into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
偏见 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.