在門上有一個大大的金色星星。

There was a big gold star on the door.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 zài
  1. to exist; to be alive
  2. (of sb or sth) to be (located) at
  3. (used before a verb to indicate an action in progress)
=2 Mén surname Men
=2 mén
  1. gate
  2. door
  3. gateway
  4. doorway
  5. opening
  6. valve
  7. switch
  8. way to do something
  9. knack
  10. family
  11. house
  12. (religious) sect
  13. school (of thought)
  14. class
  15. category
  16. phylum or division (taxonomy)
  17. classifier for large guns
  18. classifier for lessons, subjects, branches of technology
  19. (suffix) -gate (i.e. scandal; derived from Watergate)

classifiers: ,

=3 shǎng used in 上聲 shǎngshēng
=3 shàng
  1. (bound form) up; upper; above; previous
  2. first (of multiple parts)
  3. to climb; to get onto; to go up
  4. to attend (class or university)
  5. (directional complement) up
  6. (noun suffix) on; above
=4 yǒu
  1. to have; there is
  2. (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意 yǒu intentional)
=4 yòu
  1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (yòu, “again”)
  2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of (yòu, “and; with a remainder of (when dividing an integer by ten)”)
  3. alternative form of (yòu, “again”)
  4. alternative form of (yòu, “and; with a remainder of (when dividing an integer by ten)”)
=5 一個 ge
  1. a; an; one
  2. the whole (afternoon, summer vacation etc)
=5 一個
  1. Combination of the numeral (“one”) and the generic classifier : a; an; one
  2. same
6 大大
  1. greatly
  2. enormously
  3. (dialect) dad
  4. uncle
=7 de
  1. of; ~'s (possessive particle)
  2. (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)
  3. (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
  4. (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 de "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的 pǎotángrde "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 xīnde "new one")
  5. also pr. or di in poetry and songs
=7 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=7 really and truly
=7 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
8 金色 jīn
  1. golden
  2. gold (color)
=9 星星 xīngxing (coll.) a star; the stars in the sky
=9 星星 xīngxīng
  1. (literary, figurative) salt-and-pepper; grizzled
  2. (~社區) Xingxing (a community in Chengzhong, Yingcheng, Xiaogan, Hubei, China)
  3. Xingxing (a community in Chengzhong, Yingcheng, Xiaogan, Hubei, China)
  4. salt-and-pepper; grizzled
  5. tiny spot; speck