(cōng) - clever, sharp of hearing (bound morpheme) in Mandarin
cōngTraditional: 聪
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Translation
clever, sharp of hearing (bound morpheme)
Word origin
A phono-semantic character: the ear radical 耳 gives the meaning, since cleverness was linked to sharp hearing, and the right-hand element supplies the sound. It pairs with 明 in 聪明 (cōngming), clever.
- Origin
- phono-semantic
- Root
- 耳 (ear radical) + 怱 (cōng, phonetic)
Stroke order
聪
Examples
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This child is very clever.
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He is a clever student.
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She is clever and hard-working.
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This puppy is sharp.
聪 (cōng) is a bound morpheme meaning clever or sharp-eared; it pairs with 明 in 聪明 (cōngming), clever.
Appears in 1 word
Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 聪.
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