cōng ming
intelligent
clever
bright
smart
acute (of sight and hearing)
Kǒng míng
courtesy name of Zhuge Liang 諸葛亮|诸葛亮[Zhu1 ge3 Liang4]
míng bào
Ming Pao newspaper (Hong Kong)
xiǎo cōng ming
clever-clever
clever in trivial matters
sharp but petty-minded
bīng xuě cōng ming
exceptionally intelligent (idiom)
kōng míng
vacuous reputation
name without substance
in name only
so-called
cōng ming guò tóu
too clever by half
excessive ingenuity
shì hòu cōng ming
wise after the event (idiom); with hindsight, one should have predicted it
shuǎ xiǎo cōng ming
to get smart
to resort to petty tricks
Míng Bào
Ming Pao newspaper (Hong Kong)
cōng ming yī shì , měng dǒng yī shí
see 聰明一世，糊塗一時|聪明一世，糊涂一时[cong1 ming5 yi1 shi4 , hu2 tu5 yi1 shi2]
cōng ming yī shì , hú tu yī shí
even the wisest can have a momentary lapse in judgement (idiom)
every man has a fool in his sleeve
cōng ming jué dǐng
highly intelligent (idiom)
Táo huā Shàn
The Peach Blossom Fan, historical play about the last days of the Ming dynasty by Kong Shangren 孔尚任[Kong3 Shang4 ren4]
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