Cojak

Hanzi Character Search: 聰

8070

 
intelligent, clever, bright
Radical
Strokes (without radical) 11 Total Strokes 17
Mandarin reading cōng Cantonese reading cung1
Japanese on reading sou Japanese kun reading satoi
Korean reading chong Vietnamese reading thông
Simplified Variant(s)
Semantic Variant(s)

CEDICT Entries:

   [ cōng ]    quick at hearing, wise, clever, sharp-witted, intelligent, acute
   [ cōng huì ]    bright, witty, intelligent
   [ cōng mǐn ]    quick, bright, intelligent, clever, brilliant
   [ cōng ming ]    intelligent, clever, bright, smart, acute (of sight and hearing)
   [ cōng ming shì měng dǒng shí ]    see 聰明一世,糊塗一時|聪明一世,糊涂一时[cong1 ming5 yi1 shi4 , hu2 tu5 yi1 shi2]
   [ cōng ming shì tu shí ]    even the wisest can have a momentary lapse in judgment (idiom), every man has a fool in his sleeve
   [ cōng ming líng ]    clever and quick-witted
   [ cōng míng fǎn beì cōng míng ]    a clever person may become the victim of his own ingenuity (idiom); cleverness may overreach itself, too smart for one's own good
   [ cōng ming caí zhì ]    intelligence and wisdom
   [ cōng ming jué dǐng ]    highly intelligent (idiom)
   [ cōng ming guò toú ]    too clever by half, excessive ingenuity
   [ cōng yǐng ]    smart, intelligent
⇒    [ shì hoù cōng ming ]    wise after the event (idiom); with hindsight, one should have predicted it
⇒    [ bīng xuě cōng ming ]    exceptionally intelligent (idiom)
⇒    [ shī cōng ]    to go deaf, to lose hearing
⇒    [ cōng ming ]    clever-clever, clever in trivial matters, sharp but petty-minded
⇒    [ guān suàn jìn taì cōng ming fǎn suàn le qīng qīng xìng mìng ]    if one is too calculating, it will be the cause of one's own undoing (famous line in "A Dream of Red Mansions" 紅樓夢|红楼梦[Hong2 lou2 Meng4])
⇒    [ jué dǐng cōng ming ]    extremely bright (idiom)
⇒    [ shuǎ cōng ming ]    to get smart, to resort to petty tricks
⇒    [ ěr cōng míng ]    sharp ears and keen eyes (idiom), keen and alert, perceptive
⇒    [ cōng míng fǎn beì cōng míng ]    a clever person may become the victim of his own ingenuity (idiom); cleverness may overreach itself, too smart for one's own good
⇒    [ zuò cōng míng ]    to think oneself clever (idiom)

RSS