天花板上面有隻蒼蠅。

There is a fly on the ceiling.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 天花板 tiānhuābǎn
  1. ceiling (of a room)
  2. (fig.) upper limit; (slang) the very best (in a given field)
2 上面 shàngmiàn
  1. on top of
  2. above-mentioned
  3. also pr. shàngmian
=3 有 yǒu
  1. to have; there is
  2. (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意 yǒuyì intentional)
=3 有 yòu
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 又 (yòu, “again”)
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 又 (yòu, “and; with a remainder of (when dividing an integer by ten)”)
  3. alternative form of 又 (yòu, “again”)
  4. alternative form of 又 (yòu, “and; with a remainder of (when dividing an integer by ten)”)
4 隻 zhī classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc
5 蒼蠅 cāngying housefly

classifier: 隻