if you had to spell out, in roman letters...

[Adopt-Tees]

I am starting a fundraiser for international adoption, and am opening a cafe press tshirt shop.

I personally am adopting from Haiti, so I put the phrase "love & pray... Haiti" on the shirt in Haitian Creole.

I want to do the same shirt for other countries, for those adoptive parents, but I need help with the ones that don't use roman lettering.

Would you EVER see chinese written out in roman letters? If so, how would I spell/write/read "love and pray China" in roman lettering? If it would be goofy to do that ,please write it here in the right chinese characters and I'll put it in the tshirt logo.

Thanks so much for your help!

Stephanie of Adopt-Tees

[skylee]

If "pray" means "to wish/hope strongly", then I suggest -

愛與盼望 ... 中國 (Ai yu panwang ... Zhongguo) OR

愛與盼 ... 中國 (Ai yu pan ... Zhongguo)

If "pray" means "to pray to God", then I suggest -

愛與祈禱 ... 中國 (Ai yu qidao ... Zhongguo) OR

愛與禱告 ... 中國 (Ai yu daogao ... Zhongguo)

Chinese characters are cool. Their romanised version is not.

[miss_China_so_much]

Skylee: "Chinese characters are cool. Their romanised version is not."

--Agree! So, why not print Chinese characters directly? Printing Chinese characters + English translation is better than Chinese PinYin

[Adopt-Tees]

Ok then chinese characters it is! I will let the people know how to say it thank you for including the "pinyin" version for pronounciation...

phonetically is china pronounced John-gwoh (with a soft j)?

and does yu mean "and"?

and qidao is kee-dah-oh?

so Ai yu Qidao...Zhongguo

that works?

Thank you

stephanie

[Adopt-Tees]

uh oh, which of those characters is "and" ??? the second one?

thank you!

[shibo77]

愛與祈禱 ... 中國 (traditional Chinese characters)

ài yǔ qí dǎo ... zhōng guó (transliteration)

eye yu chee dow ... june gwo (approximate pronunciation in English)

love and pray ... China

-Shìbó

[Ferno]

nice color colding :o of course the dow would be like in "Dow Jones"