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intelligent; clever; bright / acute (of sight and hearing)
HSK 5
clever-clever / clever in trivial matters / sharp but petty-minded
(idiom) a clever person may become the victim of his own ingenuity; cleverness may overreach itself; too smart for one's own good
too clever by half; excessive ingenuity
(idiom) bright; clever; quick-witted
(idiom) to think oneself clever
sharp ears and keen eyes (idiom) / keen and alert / perceptive
intelligence and ability
to get smart / to resort to petty tricks
bright; sharp; quick-witted
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  *聰* | 聰* | *聰
(literary) acute (of hearing) / (bound form) clever; intelligent; sharp
if one is too calculating, it will be the cause of one's own undoing (famous line in "A Dream of Red Mansions" 紅樓夢|红楼梦)
(idiom) exceptionally intelligent
smart; intelligent
wise after the event (idiom); with hindsight, one should have predicted it
bright; intelligent
(idiom) even the wisest can have a momentary lapse in judgment; every man has a fool in his sleeve
highly intelligent; brilliant
to go deaf; to lose one's hearing / deafness; hearing loss
highly intelligent; brilliant


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