偏见

• Pinyin: piān jiàn
• Hanzi breakdown: 偏 = 亻 + 扁 (person + off-centre — leaning to one side); 见 = 目 + 儿 (eye + person — to see, to hold a view)

Meaning

Bias; prejudice; a preconceived, unfair, or one-sided view formed without full information or impartial judgment.

Widely used in social, political, and philosophical discourse. 偏见 spans racial bias, gender bias, cognitive bias, and everyday unfair preconceptions. Key collocations: 消除偏见, 充满偏见, 存有偏见, 隐性偏见, 种族偏见, 性别偏见.

Examples

1. 消除基于性别的职场偏见需要制度保障与文化观念的双重变革，单靠个人意识的觉醒难以实现根本性改变。 Eliminating gender-based bias in the workplace requires both institutional safeguards and a shift in cultural attitudes; a change in individual awareness alone is unlikely to bring about fundamental change.
2. 他承认自己对这个群体存有偏见，并表示愿意通过深入了解来重新审视自己长期以来形成的固有印象。 He admitted he held prejudice against this group and said he was willing to gain a deeper understanding and reexamine the fixed impressions he'd formed over the years.
3. 教育的深层使命之一，就是帮助学生识别和批判性地审视那些潜藏在日常思维中的文化偏见与认知盲区。 One of education's deeper missions is to help students recognize and critically examine the cultural biases and cognitive blind spots hidden in everyday thinking.

Usage Guide

Context: social issues, psychology, philosophy, education

Tone: critical

Do Say

• 隐性偏见往往比显性偏见更难被识别和纠正，因为当事人本身通常意识不到自己持有这种立场，这也是多元文化培训的核心挑战所在。(Implicit bias is often harder to identify and correct than explicit bias, because those involved are usually unaware that they hold such a position — this is also the central challenge of multicultural training.)
• 媒体对某一群体的持续性负面报道会在受众中强化既有的偏见，反过来又进一步影响该群体在现实中所受到的社会待遇，形成难以打破的恶性循环。(Sustained negative media coverage of a particular group reinforces existing prejudices in audiences, which in turn further affects the social treatment that group receives in reality, creating a vicious cycle that is difficult to break.)

Don't Say

• 他就是有偏见 — though grammatically correct, this is blunt and confrontational; in formal contexts prefer 其观点存在明显的偏见倾向

Origin & History

偏 (slanted, partial) + 见 (view, opinion) — a one-sided, slanted view

Cultural Context

Generation: All ages

Social background: Universal