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聪明

聰明traditional

HSK 3#1918 by frequencyradical 耳

cōng ming["a","an"]

intelligent; clever; bright; smart; acute (of sight and hearing)

Examples

他很聪明。

He is smart.

她很聪明。

She is very intelligent.

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Definitions adapted from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0, modified). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Frequency ranks from the BCC corpus. Full credits on the Attributions page.