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Elise Danielle Truchan
Elise Danielle Truchan
5 years ago

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.

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Millie Tiwatmuncharoen
Millie Tiwatmuncharoen
5 years ago

Smart people use 耳(Ear) to listen and use their 心 (heart) to understand people.

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Henry Krukauskas
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.

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Nicole Cheah
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.

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Ariana Fahl
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).

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Luciana Emerson
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.

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Michaella Blemur
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.

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Michaella Blemur
Michaella Blemur
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1 year ago

This is also because the bunny is very smart. 🥸

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Henry Stewart
Henry Stewart
1 year ago

It looks light a lightbulb, indicating someone is BRIGHT.

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NYU Shanghai
Margaret Jacobs
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).

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NYU Shanghai
Ammna
Ammna
1 year ago

Smart people use 耳(Ear) to listen and use their 心 (heart) to understand people.

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Juan
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

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McKenna Lipkin
McKenna Lipkin
5 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.

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NYU Shanghai
Angelina Zagdjav
Angelina Zagdjav
5 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.

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NYU Shanghai
Nathan
Nathan
28 days 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.

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Amelie Woc
Amelie Woc
28 days 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.

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School Affiliation
NYU Shanghai