Clever in Chinese
clever · HSK 3
聪明
- 聪 clever
- 明 bright
这个孩子非常聪明。 This child is very clever.
Other ways to say clever
More words with 聪 or 明
How do you say clever in Chinese?
Clever in Chinese is 聪明 (cōng ming). You can also say 巧 (qiǎo), 巧妙 (qiǎo miào), 妙 (miào).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.