cōng

clever, wise

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approved by cochleoid · Feb 19, 2025, 09:04 AM · Reviewed by cochleoid on Feb 19, 2025, 09:04 AM

I copied the way the entry for 禮 was written since this is also a phonosemantic compound originally written as just the sound component alone. Added "meaning" to the sound component, and added "originally written" to the etymology.

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Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound. Originally written as .

Components

Meaning component
SoundMeaning component

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-Sagarttshuwngs-l̥ˤoŋ hear well; intelligent

說文解字

《說文》:“聰,察也。从耳,怱聲。”

Sources

Character origin
漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica