香港是一九九七年迴歸中國的。

Hong Kong was returned to China in 1997.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 香港 Xiānggǎng Hong Kong, special administrative region (SAR) of the PRC (abbr. to Gǎng)
=2 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 shì variant of shì
3
  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 九九 jiǔjiǔ
  1. (literary) last of the nine nine-day periods; ninth nine-day period
  2. (literary) nine nine-day periods (eighty-one days) starting from a solstice (usually the winter solstice)
  3. Alternative term for 重陽節重阳节 (Chóngyángjié, “Double Ninth Festival”).
  4. eighty-one; nine nines
  5. last of the nine nine-day periods; ninth nine-day period
  6. multiplication table; nine-nine
  7. nine nine-day periods (eighty-one days) starting from a solstice (usually the winter solstice)
5
  1. seven
  2. 7
=6 Nián surname Nian
=6 nián year

classifier:

=6 nián
  1. grain
  2. harvest (old)
  3. variant of nián
7 huí
  1. to curve
  2. to return
  3. to revolve
=8 Guī surname Gui
=8 guī
  1. to return
  2. to go back to
  3. to give back to
  4. (of a responsibility) to be taken care of by
  5. to belong to
  6. to gather together
  7. (used between two identical verbs) despite
  8. to marry (of a woman) (old)
  9. division on the abacus with a one-digit divisor
9 中國 Zhōngguó China
=10 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
=10 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=10 really and truly
=10 (bound form) bull's-eye; target