聪明 cōngming▶ ฉลาด

Stroke order

聪明 is written in 23 strokes across 2 characters.

• 聪 — 15 strokes
• 明 — 8 strokes

Senses

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

Example sentences

• 他很聪明。Tā hěn cōngming.He is very clever.
• 你的妹妹很聪明。Nǐ de mèimei hěn cōngming.Your younger sister is clever.

Related words

• 明白ชัดเจน
• 证明พิสูจน์, แสดงให้เห็น
• 说明อธิบาย
• 光明แสง; เบา
• 发明การประดิษฐ์, สิ่งประดิษฐ์
• 文明อารยธรรม

聪明 is pronounced cōngming and means “ฉลาด”. You will meet it in HSK 3, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 聪明 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.