聪明 (cōngmíng) means Intelligent (bright). Below are 7 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
她是我们班最 聪明 的学生。
Tā shì wǒmen bān zuì cōngming de xuésheng.
She is the cleverest student in our class.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 聪明
善良比 聪明 更重要。
Shànliáng bǐ cōngming gèng zhòngyào.
Kindness matters more than cleverness.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 善良
他又在耍小 聪明 了。
Tā yòu zài shuǎ xiǎo cōngming le.
He is being clever-clever again.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 耍
他很 聪明 ，而且很努力。
Tā hěn cōngming, érqiě hěn nǔlì.
He is clever, and hard-working as well.
Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 而且
敬业的态度比 聪明 更重要。
Jìngyè de tàidù bǐ cōngmíng gèng zhòngyào.
A dedicated attitude matters more than cleverness.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 敬业
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Questions about 聪明
How is 聪明 used in a sentence?
This page shows 7 sentences using 聪明 (cōngmíng, "Intelligent (bright)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Is 聪明 an HSK word?
Yes — 聪明 is on the official HSK 3 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 3 page.
Where can I see the full entry for 聪明?
The dictionary page for 聪明 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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