公安人员把小偷抓住了。

The policeman arrested the thief.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

=1 公安 Gōngān see 公安縣 Gōngān Xiàn
=1 公安 gōngān
  1. (Ministry of) Public Security
  2. public safety
  3. public security
=1 公安 gōng'ān
  1. (Mainland China) police
  2. (Mainland China) police officer
  3. (~) Gong'an (a county of Jingzhou, Hubei, China)
  4. (~) Gong'an (a town in Zhongshan, Hezhou, Guangxi autonomous region, China)
  5. Gong'an (a county of Jingzhou, Hubei, China)
  6. Gong'an (a town in Zhongshan, Hezhou, Guangxi autonomous region, China)
  7. police
  8. police officer
  9. public security officer
  10. public security, public safety
2 人员 rényuán
  1. staff
  2. crew
  3. personnel

classifier:

=3
  1. to hold; to grasp
  2. to hold a baby in position to help it urinate or defecate
  3. handlebar
  4. classifier: handful, bundle, bunch
  5. classifier for things with handles
  6. (used to put the object before the verb: + {noun} + {verb})
=3 handle
=3
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (pá, “to scratch”)
  2. a surname
  3. alternative form of (pá, “to scratch”)
4 小偷 xiǎotōu thief
5 抓住 zhuāzhù to grab hold of; to capture
=6 le
  1. (completed action marker)
  2. (modal particle indicating change of state, situation now)
  3. (modal particle intensifying preceding clause)
=6 liǎo
  1. to finish
  2. (used with or after a verb to express (im)possibility, as in 忘不了 wàngbuliǎo "cannot forget")
  3. (literary) (usually followed by a negative such as or ) completely (not); entirely (not); (not) in the least
  4. to understand clearly (variant of liǎo)
=6 liǎo
  1. (of eyes) bright
  2. clear-sighted
  3. to understand clearly
=6 liào unofficial variant of liào