评委

• Pinyin: píng wěi
• Hanzi breakdown: 评 = 讠+ 平 (fair comment); 委 = 禾 + 女 (grain + woman — something entrusted/delegated)

Meaning

Judge; panel member; evaluator. Short for 评判委员 or 评审委员. A person serving on a judging or evaluation panel in a competition, award, or review process.

Widely used in talent shows (选秀评委), academic competitions (学科竞赛评委), award ceremonies (颁奖典礼评委), and procurement panels (采购评委). 首席评委 = chief judge. 评委会 = panel of judges.

Examples

1. 这位知名音乐制作人受邀担任本届歌唱比赛的评委，其专业背景使他的点评格外受到参赛选手的重视。 The well-known music producer was invited to serve as a judge for this year’s singing competition, and contestants value his feedback highly because of his professional background.
2. 评委会在经过数轮激烈讨论后，最终以多数票通过的方式选出了本届最佳影片奖得主。 After several rounds of intense discussion, the jury ultimately selected this year’s Best Picture winner by majority vote.
3. 担任评委不仅要求具备深厚的专业知识，还需要具备抵抗外部压力、坚守独立判断的职业操守。 Serving as a judge requires not only deep expertise, but also the professional integrity to resist outside pressure and stick to independent judgment.

Usage Guide

Context: competitions, media, academia, procurement

Tone: neutral

Do Say

• 为防止评委在打分过程中受到情绪因素或个人偏好干扰，组委会要求去掉最高分和最低分后取平均值作为最终得分。(To prevent judges from being swayed by emotional factors or personal preferences during scoring, the organising committee required that the highest and lowest scores be discarded, with the average of the remaining scores used as the final result.)
• 本届国际建筑奖的评委阵容涵盖来自六大洲的顶尖建筑师和学者，以确保评选结果具有广泛的国际代表性。(The judging panel for this year's international architecture award includes leading architects and scholars from six continents, ensuring the selection results have broad international representativeness.)

Don't Say

• 评委 is an informal short form appropriate in most contexts; in very formal official documents, prefer 评审委员 or 评判委员; 评委 should not be confused with 观众评审 (audience judge) — the term implies expertise-based judgement

Origin & History

Short form of 评审委员/评判委员. 评 (to judge) + 委 (entrusted committee member — 禾 + 女)

Cultural Context

Generation: All ages

Social background: Universal