"聪明" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 聪明 | cōng ming | intelligent / clever / bright / smart / acute (of sight and hearing) |   | |
Results beginning with 聪明 | ||||
| 聪明才智 | cōng ming cái zhì | intelligence and wisdom | | |
| 聪明伶俐 | cōng ming líng lì | clever and quick-witted | | |
| 聪明过头 | cōng ming guò tóu | too clever by half / excessive ingenuity | | |
| 聪明绝顶 | cōng ming jué dǐng | highly intelligent / brilliant | | |
| 聪明反被聪明误 | cōng míng fǎn bèi cōng míng wù | a clever person may become the victim of his own ingenuity (idiom) / cleverness may overreach itself / too smart for one's own good | | |
| 聪明一世，糊涂一时 | cóng ming yī shì , hú tu yī shí | even the wisest can have a momentary lapse in judgement (idiom) / every man has a fool in his sleeve | | |
| 聪明一世，糊涂一时 | cōng ming yī shì , hú tu yī shí | even the wisest can have a momentary lapse in judgment (idiom) / every man has a fool in his sleeve | | |
| 聪明一世，懵懂一时 | cóng ming yī shì , měng dǒng yī shí | see 聰明一世，糊塗一時|聪明一世，糊涂一时[cong2 ming5 yi1 shi4 , hu2 tu5 yi1 shi2] | | |
| 聪明一世，懵懂一时 | cōng ming yī shì , měng dǒng yī shí | see 聰明一世，糊塗一時|聪明一世，糊涂一时[cong1 ming5 yi1 shi4 , hu2 tu5 yi1 shi2] | | |
Approximate Results for 聪明 | ||||
| 小聪明 | xiǎo cōng ming | clever-clever / clever in trivial matters / sharp but petty-minded | | |
| 冰雪聪明 | bīng xuě cōng ming | exceptionally intelligent (idiom) | | |
| 绝顶聪明 | jué dǐng cōng ming | highly intelligent / brilliant | | |
| 自作聪明 | zì zuò cōng míng | to think oneself clever (idiom) | | |
| 事后聪明 | shì hòu cōng ming | wise after the event (idiom) / with hindsight, one should have predicted it | | |
| 耍小聪明 | shuǎ xiǎo cōng ming | to get smart / to resort to petty tricks | | |
| 盲目聪明炸弹 | blind smart bomb | | ||
| 机关算尽太聪明，反算了卿卿性命 | jī guān suàn jìn tài cōng ming , fǎn suàn le qīng qīng xìng mìng | if one is too calculating, it will be the cause of one's own undoing (famous line in "A Dream of Red Mansions" 紅樓夢|红楼梦[Hong2 lou2 Meng4]) | | |
