聪明能干

聪明能干 in English

cōng míng néng gàn: (idiom) Describes someone intelligent, quick to understand and remember things, and capable of getting things done.

Character breakdown

聪聰 cōng (literary) acute (of hearing)
明 míng bright
能 néng can
干 gān (bound form) to have to do with

Stroke order

Le caractère 明 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 明

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 能 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 能

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 干 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 干

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

聪

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

明

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 23 forms

能

Bronze script 西周早期
Clerical script 東漢
See all 14 forms

干

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 12 forms

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

Examples

他是聪明能干的人。

He was an intelligent and practical man.

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