Word Meaning 批評

ひひょう hihyou

批評 is read as ひひょう (hihyou) and means criticism.

Meaning

English

  1. criticism
  2. critique
  3. review
  4. commentary

Reading

Kana

ひひょう

Romaji

hihyou

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 19 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N1 Jōyō Grade 6 Kanken 5級 Rank 2413 Priority A

Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

批評家

ひひょうか

critic

批評眼

ひひょうがん

critical eye

本文批評

ほんもんひひょう

textual criticism

文芸批評

ぶんげいひひょう

literary criticism

印象批評

いんしょうひひょう

impressionistic criticism

厳しい批評

きびしいひひょう

severe criticism

匿名批評

とくめいひひょう

anonymous criticism

全米映画批評家協会賞

ぜんべいえいがひひょうかきょうかいしょう

National Society of Film Critics Awards

文芸批評家

ぶんげいひひょうか

literary critic

批判

ひはん

criticism

批判的

ひはんてき

critical

Example Sentences

9

かのじょはあたらしいえいがのひひょうをよんだ。

She read a review of the new movie.

ぶんげいひひょうはとてもおもしろい。

Literary criticism is very interesting.

ぷろのひひょうかにいけんをきく。

Ask a professional critic for their opinion.

Almost all of the reviews of the play were favorable.

He constantly criticizes other people.

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

To put it frankly, he is a critic rather than a writer.

It's not immoral for a novelist to tell lies. In fact, the bigger the lies, the better lies, and the more the common folks and critics will praise you.

Chokichi keenly felt that people, as they get older, forget entirely about the worries that only young people know about and that they themselves experienced in their youth; and that they nonchalantly take this convenient disposition where they judge harshly the circumstances of the young persons born of the next generation. He felt that there was truly an irreconcilable gap between the old and the young.