燕妮正在看这本书。

Yanni is reading this book.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 燕 Yān
  1. Yan, a vassal state of Zhou in present-day Hebei and Liaoning
  2. north Hebei
  3. the four Yan kingdoms of the Sixteen Kingdoms, namely: Former Yan 前燕 Qián Yān (337–370), Later Yan 後燕 Hòu Yān (384–409), Southern Yan 南燕 Nán Yān (398–410), Northern Yan 北燕 Běi Yān (409–436)
  4. surname Yan
=1 燕 yàn
  1. swallow (family Hirundinidae)
  2. old variant of 宴 yàn
=1 燕 yàn variant of 燕 yàn
2 妮 nī
  1. girl
  2. phonetic "ni" (in female names)
  3. Taiwan pr. ní
3 正在 zhèngzài to be in the process of (doing sth); to be currently ...-ing
=4 看 kān
  1. to look after
  2. to take care of
  3. to watch
  4. to guard
=4 看 kàn
  1. to see; to look at
  2. to read
  3. to watch
  4. to visit; to call on
  5. to consider; to regard as
  6. to look after
  7. to treat (a patient or illness)
  8. to depend on
  9. to feel (that)
  10. (after a verb) to give it a try
  11. to watch out for
=5 这 zhè
  1. (pronoun) this; these
  2. (bound form) this; the (followed by a noun)
  3. (bound form) this; these (followed by a classifier) (in this sense, commonly pr. zhèi, esp. in Beijing)
=5 这 zhèi (coll.) this
6 本书 běnshū
  1. book of genealogy
  2. original book; original work
  3. this book