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.
-
Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚 -
Clerical script 西晉 - See all 6 forms
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.