cōng ming

Traditional: 聰明

HSK 5

聪明 (cōng ming) is a Chinese word meaning “intelligent; clever; bright; acute (of sight and hearing)”.

Meanings

  1. 1intelligent; clever; bright
  2. 2acute (of sight and hearing)
Part of speech
adjective

Characters in 聪明

聪cōng · (literary) acute (of hearing)明míng · bright

Related words

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