大坂是日本的商业中心。

Osaka is the center of commerce in Japan.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 大坂 Dàbǎn
  1. Japanese surname Osaka
  2. old variant of 大阪 Dàbǎn (Osaka, city in Japan), used prior to the Meiji era
2 是日 shìrì
  1. (formal) this day
  2. that day
3 本 běn
  1. (bound form) root; stem
  2. (bound form) origin; source
  3. (bound form) one's own; this
  4. (bound form) this; the current (year etc)
  5. (bound form) original
  6. (bound form) inherent
  7. originally; initially
  8. capital; principal
  9. classifier for books, periodicals, files etc
=4 的 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 pígéde "one made of leather" or 跑堂儿的 pǎotángrde "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 xīnde "new one")
  5. also pr. dì or di in poetry and songs
=4 的 dī a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 dīshì)
=4 的 dí really and truly
=4 的 dì (bound form) bull's-eye; target
5 商业中心 shāngyèzhōngxīn
  1. business center
  2. commerce center