Read Edit View history 自作聪明 zìzuòcōngmíng presumptuous Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 自作聪明 (自作聰明) zìzuòcōngmíng presumptuous idiom to think oneself clever; to act smart 他总是自作聪明，结果反而把事情弄糟了。 tā zǒngshì zìzuòcōngmíng, jiéguǒ fǎn'ér bǎ shìqing nòngzāo le. He always tries to be clever, but ends up making things worse. Frequency Movie subtitles 2.30 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 0.807 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
自作聪明 (自作聰明) zìzuòcōngmíng presumptuous idiom to think oneself clever; to act smart 他总是自作聪明，结果反而把事情弄糟了。 tā zǒngshì zìzuòcōngmíng, jiéguǒ fǎn'ér bǎ shìqing nòngzāo le. He always tries to be clever, but ends up making things worse. Frequency Movie subtitles 2.30 per million appears in 1% of films Written text 0.807 per million Sources Definitions CC-CEDICT Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)