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聪

cōng

HSK 3 Character Traditional 聰

What 聪 means

1. literaryacute (of hearing)
2. bound formclever; intelligent; sharp

Example sentences

• 猫很聪明
  Māo hěn cōngming
  Cats are smart.
• 你很聪明。
  You are sharp.
• 他很聪明。
  He is sharp-witted.
• 她很聪明。
  She is very clever.
• 猫很聪明。
  Cats are smart.
• 约翰很聪明。
  John is clever.

Words starting with 聪

• 聪明cōng mingintelligent; clever; bright; acute (of sight and hearing)
• 聪慧cōng huìbright; intelligent
• 聪明才智cōng ming cái zhìintelligence and ability
• 聪颖cōng yǐngsmart; intelligent
• 聪明伶俐cōng ming líng lì(idiom) bright; clever; quick-witted
• 聪敏cōng mǐnbright; sharp; quick-witted
• 聪明绝顶cōng ming jué dǐngexceptionally intelligent; brilliant
• 聪明过头cōng ming guò tóutoo clever by half; excessive ingenuity
• 聪明反被聪明误cōng míng fǎn bèi cōng míng wù(idiom) a clever person may become the victim of his own ingenuity…
• 聪明一世，糊涂一时cōng ming yī shì , hú tu yī shí(idiom) even the wisest can have a momentary lapse in judgment…
• 聪明一世，懵懂一时cōng ming yī shì , měng dǒng yī shísee 聰明一世，聪明一世，糊涂一时

Words containing 聪

• 小聪明xiǎo cōng mingclever-clever; clever in trivial matters; sharp but petty-minded
• 自作聪明zì zuò cōng míng(idiom) to think oneself clever
• 失聪shī cōngto go deaf; to lose one's hearing; deafness; hearing loss
• 事后聪明shì hòu cōng mingwise after the event (idiom); with hindsight, one should have predicted it
• 冰雪聪明bīng xuě cōng ming(idiom) exceptionally intelligent
• 绝顶聪明jué dǐng cōng minghighly intelligent; brilliant
• 耳聪目明ěr cōng mù míngsharp ears and keen eyes (idiom); keen and alert; perceptive
• 耍小聪明shuǎ xiǎo cōng mingto get smart; to resort to petty tricks
• 机关算尽太聪明，反算了卿卿性命jī guān suàn jìn tài cōng ming , fǎn suàn le qīng qīng xìng mìngif one is too calculating, it will be the cause of one's own undoing…

Characters that look like 聪

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 稿gǎomanuscript; draft; stalk of grain
• 璃lí(phonetic character used in transliteration of foreign names); Taiwan pr. lì; variant of 璃
• 踊yǒngleap
• 璇xuán(jade)
• 犒kàoto reward or comfort with presents of food, drink etc
• 褊biǎnnarrow; urgent

Sounds the same

Read cōng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 匆hurried; hasty
• 葱scallion; green onion
• 璁stone similar to jade
• 囱(bound form) chimney
• 枞fir tree
• 苁Boschniakia glabra
• 骢buckskin horse
• 熜chimney (old)
• 𪻐used in 瑽瑢
• 鍐a headstall, ornament on a bridle
• 鏦spear; to plunge (with spear)
• 聡old variant of 聪