公平

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 公平, read こうへい, denotes fairness and an absence of bias toward one side.
• Basic usage: In 審査員はすべての作品を公平に評価した。, the judges evaluated every work impartially.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Fairness and sameness
  • 公平 concerns whether treatment is impartial. To 公平に評価する works does not mean assigning every work the same score.
• Quality and manner
  • 公平だ states that something is fair; 公平に評価する describes the manner of evaluation. Before a noun, use な, as in 公平な審査.