equal

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 均 is associated with evenness or uniformity; its on-reading is きん.
• Basic usage: 平均(へいきん) means average, while 均等(きんとう) means equal or evenly distributed.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• An average and an even distribution
  • If box weights 平均すると二キロだった, their average was two kilograms. This does not mean that every individual box weighed the same.
  • 均等に分けた describes having divided the sweets evenly. Whereas 平均 is used for deriving an average from several values, 均等 describes evenly divided shares or evenly applied force.