雅尼看到兒子在玩一隻金龜子。

Yanni saw his son playing with a June beetle.

Source: Tatoeba

Sentence Composition

1 雅 yǎ elegant
2 尼 ní
  1. Buddhist nun
  2. (often used in phonetic spellings)
3 看到 kàndào to see
=4 兒子 érzi son
=4 兒子 érzǐ
  1. Term of self-address, used by a man when speaking to elders.
  2. baby; infant; newborn
  3. child
5 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)
=6 玩 wán
  1. to play
  2. to have fun
  3. to trifle with
  4. toy
  5. sth used for amusement
  6. curio or antique (Taiwan pr. wàn)
  7. to keep sth for entertainment
=6 玩 wán
  1. variant of 玩 wán
  2. Taiwan pr. wàn
7 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
8 隻 zhī classifier for birds and certain animals, one of a pair, some utensils, vessels etc
9 金龜子 jīnguīzǐ scarab