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聪明 (cōng ming): meaning and stroke order

聪明 (cōng ming) means intelligent; clever; bright, acute (of sight and hearing).

聪明

Simplified
聪明
Traditional
聰明
Pinyin
cōng ming

Stroke order of 聪明

聪

  • cōng (literary) acute (of hearing); (bound form) clever; intelligent; sharp
  • 15 strokes
  • Traditional form: 聰

Stroke by stroke

明

  • Míng Ming Dynasty (1368–1644); surname Ming
  • míng bright; opposite: dark 暗[an4]
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 聪明

  1. cōng ming Traditional 聰明
    • intelligent; clever; bright
    • acute (of sight and hearing)

Radicals of the characters

聪
Radical 耳 (Kangxi radical 128) · 15 strokes · 耳 on the left, 总 on the right
明
Radical 日 (Kangxi radical 72) · 8 strokes · 日 on the left, 月 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

聪明 in our stories

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  • “我女儿可聪明了，在上海工作，很忙，”他骄傲地说，“你别告诉她我在这儿，她会担心的。”

    wǒ nǚ'ér kě cōngming le zài Shànghǎi gōngzuò hěn máng tā jiāo'ào de shuō nǐ bié gàosu tā wǒ zài zhèr tā huì dānxīn de

    "My daughter is very clever. She works in Shanghai, she's very busy," he said proudly. "Don't tell her I'm here; she'd worry."

    From the story The song in the thunderstorm HSK 7–9 · Level 8

  • 一千多年前，有一位叫祝英台的姑娘，聪明好学，一心想去书院读书。

    yìqiān duō nián qián yǒu yí wèi jiào Zhù Yīngtái de gūniang cōngming hàoxué yìxīn xiǎng qù shūyuàn dúshū

    More than a thousand years ago there was a girl called Zhu Yingtai, clever and studious, who longed to go and study at an academy.

    From the story The Butterfly Lovers HSK 7–9 · Level 8

Stories using 聪明

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).