偏へん重ちょう

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Common wordFreq.FrequencyTop 50,000

偏重する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'

Meanings

overemphasis; disproportionate weight; lopsided focus

Used when one aspect is given excessive importance at the expense of others. Often appears as ～を偏重する or ～に偏重する.

〈事こと〉を偏へん重ちょうするto place excessive importance on ~
この会かい社しゃは学がく歴れきを偏へん重ちょうする傾けい向こうがある。
This company tends to place excessive importance on academic credentials.
〈事こと〉に偏へん重ちょうするto be lopsidedly focused on ~
日本にほんの教きょう育いくは知ち識しきに偏へん重ちょうしていると言いわれる。
Japanese education is said to be disproportionately focused on knowledge.

重じゅう視しN3
重視 means neutrally 'to attach importance to something', while 偏重 implies an excessive, unbalanced emphasis that neglects other factors.
偏へん向こう
偏向 describes a slant or bias in direction or opinion, whereas 偏重 specifically means placing too much weight on one particular element.
偏かたよるN2
偏る is the plain verb meaning 'to be lopsided or skewed', while 偏重 is the more formal noun/suru-verb for giving excessive weight to one thing.
一いっ辺ぺん倒とう
偏重 explicitly criticizes an overemphasis or lopsided weighting of something, whereas 一辺倒 can describe strong focus more neutrally.

軽けい視しN1
軽視 means to make light of or disregard something, the opposite of 偏重's excessive emphasis on it.

偏へん見けんN1
偏見 means 'prejudice' or 'bias in judgment', while 偏重 means giving disproportionate weight or importance to something; they share the kanji 偏 but differ in meaning.

学がく歴れき偏へん重ちょう
overemphasis on academic background
知ち育いく偏へん重ちょう
overemphasis on intellectual education; too much intellectual training

偏重Usage100%
- へんちょう
  Standard kanji form; the reading へんじゅう is obsolete.
- へんじゅう
  out-dated reading
へんじゅう
out-dated reading

Compound of 偏 (へん, 'biased, leaning') and 重 (ちょう, 'weight, importance'). The reading へんじゅう is an older, now-obsolete variant.