cōng
clever, wise
Phonosemantic compound. 耳 represents the meaning and 悤 represents the sound. Originally written as 悤.
Evolution
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 聰
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
clever | ||
wise | ||
bright | ||
intelligence and wisdom | ||
clever-clever |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*s-l̥ˤoŋ | tshuwng | cōng | hear well; intelligent |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 43.4407% of movies
983rd most common character in movies
1669th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 17 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8070 |
Shuowen | “聰，察也。从耳，怱聲。” |
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