| 聰 | [ cōng ] quick at hearing, wise, clever, sharp-witted, intelligent, acute |
| 聰慧 | [ cōng huì ] bright, witty, intelligent |
| 聰敏 | [ cōng mǐn ] quick, bright, intelligent, clever, brilliant |
| 聰明 | [ cōng ming ] intelligent, clever, bright, smart, acute (of sight and hearing) |
| 聰明一世，懵懂一時 | [ cōng ming yī shì měng dǒng yī 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] |
| 聰明一世，糊塗一時 | [ cōng ming yī shì hú tu yī shí ] even the wisest can have a momentary lapse in judgment (idiom), every man has a fool in his sleeve |
| 聰明伶俐 | [ cōng ming líng lì ] clever and quick-witted |
| 聰明反被聰明誤 | [ cōng míng fǎn beì cōng míng wù ] a clever person may become the victim of his own ingenuity (idiom); cleverness may overreach itself, too smart for one's own good |
| 聰明才智 | [ cōng ming caí zhì ] intelligence and wisdom |
| 聰明絕頂 | [ cōng ming jué dǐng ] highly intelligent (idiom) |
| 聰明過頭 | [ cōng ming guò toú ] too clever by half, excessive ingenuity |
| 聰穎 | [ cōng yǐng ] smart, intelligent |
| ⇒ 事後聰明 | [ shì hoù cōng ming ] wise after the event (idiom); with hindsight, one should have predicted it |
| ⇒ 冰雪聰明 | [ bīng xuě cōng ming ] exceptionally intelligent (idiom) |
| ⇒ 失聰 | [ shī cōng ] to go deaf, to lose hearing |
| ⇒ 小聰明 | [ cōng ming ] clever-clever, clever in trivial matters, sharp but petty-minded |
| ⇒ 機關算盡太聰明，反算了卿卿性命 | [ jī 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]) |
| ⇒ 絕頂聰明 | [ jué dǐng cōng ming ] extremely bright (idiom) |
| ⇒ 耍小聰明 | [ shuǎ cōng ming ] to get smart, to resort to petty tricks |
| ⇒ 耳聰目明 | [ ěr cōng mù míng ] sharp ears and keen eyes (idiom), keen and alert, perceptive |
| ⇒ 聰明反被聰明誤 | [ cōng míng fǎn beì cōng míng wù ] a clever person may become the victim of his own ingenuity (idiom); cleverness may overreach itself, too smart for one's own good |
| ⇒ 自作聰明 | [ zì zuò cōng míng ] to think oneself clever (idiom) |