in English

cōng
(literary) acute (of hearing) / (bound form) clever / intelligent / sharp

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 聰, the traditional character: 聪 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • 一个聪明人不会说这种话。

    A wise man would not say such a thing.

  • 他不像他的兄长那样聪明。

    He is not as intelligent as his older brother.

  • 他很聪明,而且他很帅。

    He's very smart, and he's handsome too.

  • 他很聪明。

    He is sharp-witted.

  • 他没他哥哥聪明。

    He is less clever than his elder brother.

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