市中心是城市之心。

The downtown area is the heart of the city.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 市中心 shìzhōngxīn
  1. city center
  2. downtown
=2 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)
=2 是 shì variant of 是 shì
3 城市 chéngshì city; town

classifier: 座
4 之 zhī
  1. (possessive particle, literary equivalent of 的 de)
  2. him
  3. her
  4. it
5 心 xīn
  1. heart
  2. mind
  3. intention
  4. center
  5. core

classifiers: 顆, 個