聪

quick at hearing / wise / clever / sharp-witted / intelligent / acute

always / to assemble / gather / total / overall / head / chief / general / in every case

ear / handle (archaeology) / and that is all (Classical Chinese)

general; overall / to sum up / in every case; always; invariably / anyway; after all; eventually; sooner or later / surely / (after a person's name) abbr. for 總經理|总经理[zong3 jing1 li3] or 總編|总编[zong3 bian1] etc

intelligent / clever / bright / smart / acute (of sight and hearing)

to think oneself clever (idiom)

clever-clever / clever in trivial matters / sharp but petty-minded

bright / witty / intelligent

intelligence and wisdom

to go deaf; to lose one's hearing / deafness; hearing loss

clever and quick-witted

smart / intelligent

quick / bright / intelligent / clever / brilliant

a clever person may become the victim of his own ingenuity (idiom); cleverness may overreach itself / too smart for one's own good

sharp ears and keen eyes (idiom) / keen and alert / perceptive

exceptionally intelligent (idiom)

if one is too calculating, it will be the cause of one's own undoing (famous line in "A Dream of Red Mansions" 紅樓夢|红楼梦[Hong2 lou2 Meng4])

highly intelligent; brilliant

to get smart / to resort to petty tricks

wise after the event (idiom); with hindsight, one should have predicted it

see 聰明一世，糊塗一時|聪明一世，糊涂一时[cong1 ming5 yi1 shi4 , hu2 tu5 yi1 shi2]

even the wisest can have a momentary lapse in judgment (idiom) / every man has a fool in his sleeve

highly intelligent; brilliant

too clever by half / excessive ingenuity