The right side of the character looks like it is a head with antennae so the head is getting information so he is very smart.
Millie Tiwatmuncharoen
5 years ago
Smart people use 耳（Ear) to listen and use their 心 (heart) to understand people.
Henry Krukauskas
4 years ago
It looks like an eye is looking at a lightbulb and a heart. That represents the struggle smart people have in making decisions based on heart or logic.
Nicole Cheah
4 years ago
the left hand side is the ear radical, so i think that is how i remember this radical. if you listen in class, you will do well, and thus it is smart to listen in class.
Ariana Fahl
2 years ago
聪明 means smart. To remember 聪, I first remember that in order to be smart, you need to learn first. To do this, you need to listen with your ears (the left-most part of the character is an 耳), be able to communicate what you know (there is a 口 in the upper right part), and truly understand the material with your heart (the lower right hand part is 心).
Luciana Emerson
2 years ago
I think of this character like a person on a computer. The left is the computer and the right is a person coding on it or doing something smart.
Michaella Blemur
1 year ago
The left character is the ear radical and it looks like a door with 2 handles. on the right, a bunny with 2 ears uses their heart (xīn) to listen in behind the door.
It looks light a lightbulb, indicating someone is BRIGHT.
School Affiliation
NYU Shanghai
Margaret Jacobs
1 year ago
With the ear on the left and eyes, mouth, and heart on the right, there’s all you need to become the meaning of this character (smart).
School Affiliation
NYU Shanghai
Ammna
1 year ago
Smart people use 耳（Ear) to listen and use their 心 (heart) to understand people.
Juan
1 year ago
The right side of the character looks like an alien because it has two antennas on top of its head so it is a smarter life form
McKenna Lipkin
6 months ago
The left hand size looks like a piece of paper, and the right hand side looks like a person- so the person is studying, therefore they are smart.
School Affiliation
NYU Shanghai
Angelina Zagdjav
6 months ago
The radical on the left (耳) means “ear” and (总) can mean “total.” To be clever or intelligent, you need to listen carefully. So 聪 is someone who is smart because they listen well and process information.
School Affiliation
NYU Shanghai
Nathan
1 month ago
the 口 radical looks like a brain as the top antannaes are pouring in information, the 心 radical looks like the rest of the body.
Amelie Woc
1 month ago
I remember this character by thinking of a SMART person standing in front of a white board in which they wrote 2 horizontal lines, this SMART person has two sticks coming from its head (I imagine them as ideas), and the SMART person has the component of a HEART underneath.
The right side of the character looks like it is a head with antennae so the head is getting information so he is very smart.
Smart people use 耳（Ear) to listen and use their 心 (heart) to understand people.
It looks like an eye is looking at a lightbulb and a heart. That represents the struggle smart people have in making decisions based on heart or logic.
the left hand side is the ear radical, so i think that is how i remember this radical. if you listen in class, you will do well, and thus it is smart to listen in class.
聪明 means smart. To remember 聪, I first remember that in order to be smart, you need to learn first. To do this, you need to listen with your ears (the left-most part of the character is an 耳), be able to communicate what you know (there is a 口 in the upper right part), and truly understand the material with your heart (the lower right hand part is 心).
I think of this character like a person on a computer. The left is the computer and the right is a person coding on it or doing something smart.
The left character is the ear radical and it looks like a door with 2 handles. on the right, a bunny with 2 ears uses their heart (xīn) to listen in behind the door.
This is also because the bunny is very smart. 🥸
It looks light a lightbulb, indicating someone is BRIGHT.
With the ear on the left and eyes, mouth, and heart on the right, there’s all you need to become the meaning of this character (smart).
Smart people use 耳（Ear) to listen and use their 心 (heart) to understand people.
The right side of the character looks like an alien because it has two antennas on top of its head so it is a smarter life form
The left hand size looks like a piece of paper, and the right hand side looks like a person- so the person is studying, therefore they are smart.
The radical on the left (耳) means “ear” and (总) can mean “total.” To be clever or intelligent, you need to listen carefully. So 聪 is someone who is smart because they listen well and process information.
the 口 radical looks like a brain as the top antannaes are pouring in information, the 心 radical looks like the rest of the body.
I remember this character by thinking of a SMART person standing in front of a white board in which they wrote 2 horizontal lines, this SMART person has two sticks coming from its head (I imagine them as ideas), and the SMART person has the component of a HEART underneath.