How do you write the following in Chinese?

Our House
Grandparents
Mom
Dad
Brother
Your Bedroom 
Our Dogs
Our Fish
We would love for you to join our family!

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Request for Question Clarification by denco-ga on 02 Dec 2005 13:50 PST

Howdy 4win-ga,

I am going to post this as a clarification request to make sure this
is what you need.

About.com's "China Online" - Frequently Asked Chinese Characters  
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc.htm

Most of the following are from the above web page.

Home
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_home.htm

Granddad, Grandpa
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_grandfather2.htm

Grandfather
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_grandfather.htm

Grandmother
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_grandmother.htm

Mama
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_mom.htm

Mom
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_mother.htm

Dad, Daddy, Papa
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_dad.htm

Father
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_father.htm

Brother - Sibling
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_brother1.htm

Brother - younger
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_brother2.htm

Brother - older
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_brother3.htm

Your
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_your1.htm

Various possessives, such as mine, our, etc.
http://www.maribelhome.com/HsvChineseSchool/FirstSecondThirdPerson

Bedroom
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_bedroom.htm

Dog
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_dog.htm

Fish
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_fish.htm

Family
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_family.htm

Forever family
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_foreverfamily.htm

Please
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_please.htm

Common phrases, including: Join in
http://www.lesun.org/english/html/2005-03/1340.htm

Our hearts are forever tied.
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_ourheartsareforevertied.htm

Spoken Words and Phrases for Adoptive Parents
http://www.wku.edu/~yuanh/AudioChinese/parent.html

Google's Translate utility.
http://translate.google.com/translate_t

If the above will work as an answer for you, please tell and I will
post it as such.  Thanks!

Looking Forward, denco-ga - Google Answers Researcher

Howdy 4win-ga,

Greatly appreciate you accepting this as an answer.

About.com's "China Online" has this great "Frequently Asked Chinese
Characters" section.
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc.htm

Most of the following are from the above web page.  Note that if you
"right click" on any of the characters, you can then click on "Save
Image As ..." and save them on your computer so you can print them
out at some other time.

Home
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_home.htm

Granddad, Grandpa
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_grandfather2.htm

Grandfather
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_grandfather.htm

Grandmother
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_grandmother.htm

Mama
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_mom.htm

Mom
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_mother.htm

Dad, Daddy, Papa
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_dad.htm

Father
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_father.htm

Brother - Sibling
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_brother1.htm

Brother - younger
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_brother2.htm

Brother - older
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_brother3.htm

Your
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_your1.htm

Various possessives, such as mine, our, etc.
http://www.maribelhome.com/HsvChineseSchool/FirstSecondThirdPerson

Bedroom
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_bedroom.htm

Dog
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_dog.htm

Fish
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_fish.htm

Family
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_family.htm

Forever family
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_foreverfamily.htm

Please
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_please.htm

Common phrases, including: Join in
http://www.lesun.org/english/html/2005-03/1340.htm

"Our hearts are forever tied."
http://chineseculture.about.com/library/symbol/blcc_ourheartsareforevertied.htm

Spoken Words and Phrases for Adoptive Parents
http://www.wku.edu/~yuanh/AudioChinese/parent.html

Google's Translate utility.  For longer phrases, you can plug on
English and get rough translastions in simplified Chinese.
http://translate.google.com/translate_t

If you need any clarification, please feel free to ask.


Search strategy:  My spouse and I adopted a little girl from China
and I have the above sites bookmarked.

Looking Forward, denco-ga - Google Answers Researcher

Above and beyond!  Wonderful help!

Our House ?????
Grandparents ?????
Mom ??
Dad ??
Brother ?? for younger brother and ?? for elder brother
Your Bedroom ????
Our Dogs ????
Our Fish ????
We would love for you to join our family!
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Dear denco-ga,

Wonderful information.  Thank you!

Win

haimoto-ga,

Your response came through as boxes.  How do I get them to look like characters?

4win

Morning 4win,
  I just wanted to clarify that sentences can have different meanings.
From the word list you have provided, it could be you are going to
have a exchange student stay with you. The sentence "Would would love
for your to join our family" which Haimoto-ga translated has more of
the meaning "to enter/become a member of our family" as opposed to the
meaning "join us for dinner" or "join us on a vacation".
  Also, there are two systems of writing Chinese characters. The
characters on about.com seem to be the traditional characters, while
the ones Haimoto-ga provided are simplified characters used in the
People's Republic of China.

Actually, the characters shown on the About.com website are exactly the
same ones that the comment provides.  Granted, more stylistic, but still
the same characters.

The About.com site and the commenter provides the phonetic "ma ma" for
Mama and "ba ba" for Papa, etc.

Not only that, the About.com pages give the Pinyin equivalents of the
characters, so you can use a Pinyin look-up tool to derive characters,
if desired.  The Mandarin Tools website has a usable look-up tool.
http://www.mandarintools.com/chardict.html

"Chinese Character Dictionary"

Looking Forward, denco-ga - Google Answers Researcher

Please try going to "View" in IE menu, and select "Encoding" and then
"Unicode" or "Chinese Simplified".

Much thanks for the kind comments and 5 star rating, 4win-ga.

Looking Forward, denco-ga - Google Answers Researcher

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