The word 评价 is formed by combining two meaningful characters: 评 (píng), which carries the sense of judging, commenting, or critiquing, and 价 (jià), which means value, price, or worth. Their conceptual union creates a compound where the act of judgment or commentary (评) is specifically directed toward determining or assessing the value or worth (价) of something, thus yielding the integrated meaning of "to evaluate" or "appraisal". It is a semantic compound where the combined idea is greater than the sum of its parts.