聰明反被聰明誤 Save Sign in to save words Simplified: 聪明反被聪明误 cōngmíngfǎnbèicōngmíngwù ㄘㄨㄥ ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄈㄢˇ ㄅㄟˋ ㄘㄨㄥ ㄇㄧㄥˊ ㄨˋ a clever person may become the victim of his own ingenuity cleverness may overreach itself too smart for one's own good idiom Character by character 聰(cōng)acute 明(míng)Ming Dynasty 反(fǎn)contrary 被(bèi)quilt 聰(cōng)acute 明(míng)Ming Dynasty 誤(wù)mistake A Chinese word or character, or English Search Sources CC-CEDICT, CC BY-SA 4.0 pinyinjs, Apache-2.0