"Ingenuity" • Chinese-English Dictionary
| 巧妙 | qiǎo miào | ingenious / clever / ingenuity / artifice |   |
| 创造力 | chuàng zào lì | ingenuity / creativity | |
| 匠心 | jiàng xīn | ingenuity / craftsmanship | |
| 独创性 | dú chuàng xìng | innovative / ingenious / originality / ingenuity | |
| 巧思 | qiǎo sī | innovative thinking / ingenuity | |
| 殚精竭虑 | dān jīng jié lu:4 | to exhaust one's thoughts and ingenuity (idiom) / to think sth through thoroughly / to rack one's brains / to leave no stone unturned | |
| 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 | |
| 殚精极虑 | dān jīng jí lu:4 | to exhaust one's thoughts and ingenuity (idiom) / to think sth through thoroughly / to rack one's brains / to leave no stone unturned | |
| 用尽心机 | yòng jìn xīn jī | to tax one's ingenuity | |
| 聪明过头 | cōng ming guò tóu | too clever by half / excessive ingenuity | |
| 别具匠心 | bié jù jiàng xīn | to show ingenuity / (of a design) clever / brilliantly conceived | |
