聪明 (聰明) cōngming
cōngming
adjective
clever; intelligent; bright; smart; acute
Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
Notes: (CC-CEDICT '聰明')
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- 聪明过头(聰明過頭) too clever by half; excessive ingenuity
- 聪明一世，糊涂一时(聰明一世，糊塗一時) even the wisest can have a momentary lapse in judgment; every man has a fool in his sleeve
- 冰雪聪明(冰雪聰明) exceptionally intelligent
- 小聪明(小聰明) clever-clever; clever in trivial matters; sharp but petty-minded
- 耍小聪明(耍小聰明) to get smart; to resort to petty tricks
- 聪明反被聪明误(聰明反被聰明誤) a clever person may become the victim of his own ingenuity; cleverness may overreach itself
- 事后聪明(事後聰明) wise after the event; with hindsight, one should have predicted it
- 聪明才智(聰明才智) intelligence and wisdom
- 自作聪明(自作聰明) to think oneself clever
- 聪明绝顶(聰明絕頂) highly intelligent
- 聪明伶俐(聰明伶俐) clever and quick-witted
- 绝顶聪明(絕頂聰明) extremely bright
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- 卷五十三 Scroll 53 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 6
- 卷75 列傳第40 儒林 Volume 75 Biographies 40: Confucian Scholars Book of Sui 隋書 — count: 4
- 卷五十 Scroll 50 Wenxuan 文選 — count: 4
- 卷八十二 列傳第七十: 儒林下 Volume 82 Biographies 70: Confucian Scholars 2 History of the Northern Dynasties 北史 — count: 4
- 第一百十三回 Chapter 113 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 三國演義 — count: 4
- 君臣上第三十 Chapter 30: A Ruler and his Ministers I Guanzi 管子 — count: 4
- 卷九 主術訓 Chapter 9: The Sovereign's Methods Huainanzi 淮南子 — count: 4
- Daode Jing 《道德經》 Daode Jing 道德經 — count: 4
- 卷八十一 匡張孔馬傳 Volume 81: Kuang, Zhang, Kong and Ma Book of Han 漢書 — count: 3
- 第二回 Chapter 10 Dream of the Red Chamber 紅樓夢 — count: 3
Collocations
- 耳目聪明 (耳目聰明) 耳目聰明 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《樂記》 Record of Music — count: 14
- 聪明神武 (聰明神武) 聰明神武 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷一百下 敍傳 Volume 100b: Afterword and Family History 2 — count: 6
- 聪明睿智 (聰明睿智) 是故聰明睿智 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十二 道應訓 Chapter 12: Responses of the Way — count: 4
- 天聪明 (天聰明) 天聰明 — Book of Documents 尚書, 虞書 皐陶謨 Yu Shu - Counsels of the Gao Yao — count: 4
- 智能聪明 (智能聰明) 而不言智能聰明 — Guanzi 管子, 君臣上第三十 Chapter 30: A Ruler and his Ministers I — count: 3
- 聪明圣知 (聰明聖知) 苟不固聰明聖知達天德者 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《中庸》 The State of Equilibrium and Harmony, also known as the Doctrine of the Mean — count: 3
- 聪明仁 (聰明仁) 以公聰明仁智 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷五十四 楊震列傳 Volume 54: Biography of Yang Zhen — count: 3
- 公聪明 (公聰明) 以公聰明仁智 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷五十四 楊震列傳 Volume 54: Biography of Yang Zhen — count: 3
- 聪明时 (聰明時) 惟天生聰明時乂 — Book of Documents 尚書, 商書 仲虺之誥 Shang Shu - Announcement of Zhong-hui — count: 2
- 广聪明 (廣聰明) 所以廣聰明 — Book of Han 漢書, 卷八十三 薛宣朱博傳 Volume 83: Xue Xuan and Zhu Bo — count: 2