每天吸一根香煙是個好習慣。

Smoking one cigarette a day is a good habit.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 每天 měitiān every day
2 吸 xī
  1. to breathe
  2. to suck in
  3. to absorb
  4. to inhale
3 一 yī
  1. one
  2. single
  3. a (article)
  4. as soon as
  5. entire; whole; all; throughout
  6. "one" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 1)
  7. also pr. yāo for greater clarity when spelling out numbers digit by digit
4 根 gēn
  1. root
  2. basis
  3. classifier for long slender objects, e.g. cigarettes, guitar strings
  4. radical (chemistry)

classifier: 條
5 香煙 xiāngyān smoke from incense (burned as an offering to one's ancestors); (fig.) continuation of family line

classifiers: 支, 條, 根, 包, 盒
=6 是 shì
  1. to be (followed by substantives only)
  2. correct; right; true
  3. (respectful acknowledgement of a command) very well
  4. (adverb for emphatic assertion)
=6 是 shì variant of 是 shì
=7 個 gě used in 自个儿 zìgěr
=7 個 gè
  1. (classifier used before a noun that has no specific classifier)
  2. (bound form) individual
=8 好 hǎo
  1. good
  2. appropriate; proper
  3. all right!
  4. (before a verb) easy to
  5. (before a verb) good to
  6. (before an adjective for exclamatory effect) so
  7. (verb complement indicating completion)
  8. (of two people) close; on intimate terms
  9. (after a personal pronoun) hello
=8 好 hào to be fond of; to have a tendency to; to be prone to
9 習慣 xíguàn
  1. habit
  2. custom
  3. usual practice
  4. to be used to

classifier: 個