我在畫一隻鳥。

I am drawing a bird.

I'm drawing a bird.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 我 wǒ
  1. I
  2. me
  3. my
2 在 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)
3 畫一 huàyī
  1. (literary) uniform; orderly; consistent
  2. uniform; orderly; consistent
4 隻 zhī classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc
=5 鳥 diǎo
  1. variant of 屌 diǎo
  2. penis
=5 鳥 niǎo
  1. bird
  2. "bird" radical in Chinese characters (Kangxi radical 196)
  3. (dialect) to pay attention to
  4. (intensifier) damned
  5. goddamn

classifiers: 隻, 群