Read Edit View history Discussion 自作聪明 zìzuòcōngmíng to think oneself clever Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 自作聪明 自作聰明 zìzuòcōngmíng to think oneself clever (idiom) to think oneself clever; to outsmart oneself by being too clever; to act presumptuously based on a mistaken belief in one's own intelligence Frequency Movie subtitles 2.30 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 0.807 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
自作聪明 自作聰明 zìzuòcōngmíng to think oneself clever (idiom) to think oneself clever; to outsmart oneself by being too clever; to act presumptuously based on a mistaken belief in one's own intelligence Frequency Movie subtitles 2.30 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 0.807 per million Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)