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聰

聰

See also: 聡 and 聪

Translingual

Han character

聰 (radical 128 耳+11, 17 strokes, cangjie input 尸十竹田心 (SJHWP), four-corner 16130)

References

  • KangXi: page 969, character 6
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 29154
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1419, character 15
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2795, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+8070

Chinese

trad. 聰
simp. 聪

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (囱) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
牎 *sʰroːŋ
窗 *sʰroːŋ
窓 *sʰroːŋ
囱 *sʰroːŋ, *sʰloːŋ
總 *ʔsloːŋʔ
熜 *ʔsloːŋʔ
傯 *ʔsloːŋʔ
緫 *ʔsloːŋʔ
揔 *ʔsloːŋʔ
偬 *ʔsloːŋʔ, *ʔsloːŋs
囪 *sʰloːŋ
璁 *sʰloːŋ
驄 *sʰloːŋ
蔥 *sʰloːŋ
匆 *sʰloːŋ
怱 *sʰloːŋ
葱 *sʰloːŋ
楤 *sʰloːŋ
聦 *sʰloːŋ
繱 *sʰloːŋ
騘 *sʰloːŋ
鍯 *sʰloːŋ
聰 *sʰloːŋ
愡 *sʰloːŋs
檧 *sloːŋ, *sloːŋʔ
憽 *sloːŋ
幒 *sʰloŋʔ, *kjoŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *sʰloːŋ) : semantic 耳 ‎(“ear”) + phonetic 悤.

Pronunciation

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 聰
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 cōng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ tshuwng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*s-l̥ˤoŋ/
English hear well; intelligent

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 聰
Reading # 1/1
No. 1830
Phonetic
component		 囱
Rime
group		 東
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 怱
Old
Chinese		 /*sʰloːŋ/

Definitions

聰

  1. quick at hearing
  2. hearing; sense of hearing
  3. intelligent; clever; bright

Compounds

  • 伶俐聰敏／伶俐聪敏
  • 冰雪聰明／冰雪聪明
  • 啟聰／启聪
  • 失聰／失聪
  • 宸聰／宸聪
  • 小聰明／小聪明 (xiǎocōngmíng)
  • 明目達聰／明目达聪
  • 絕頂聰明／绝顶聪明
  • 耳目聰明／耳目聪明
  • 聰明才智／聪明才智
  • 聰明絕頂／聪明绝顶
  • 聰穎／聪颖 (cōngyǐng)
  • 聰靈／聪灵
  • 自作聰明／自作聪明
  • 蔽聰塞明／蔽聪塞明
  • 閉明塞聰／闭明塞聪
  • 鬼聰明／鬼聪明

Japanese

Kanji

聰

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

聰 • ‎(chong) (hangeul 총, revised chong, McCune-Reischauer ch'ong, Yale chong)

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Vietnamese

Han character

聰 (thông)

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