How do you say 'home is where the heart is' in traditional Chinese characters?

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How do you say 'home is where the heart is' in traditional Chinese characters? Is this correct?: 家是哪裡的心臟是

see iciba:（谚）心之所在即为家，金窝银窝，不如自家的狗窝；www provides translation to traditional characters — user6065, Sep 22, 2015 at 4:14
An irrelevant comment: Chinese characters are to be written. You want to say something in Chinese, and write that down in traditional characters. — HYC, Sep 24, 2015 at 17:20

Mou某 · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-23 07:24:26Z

There's a few different ways to do this.

Aurus Huang already suggested

心在哪裡，家就在哪裡。

above.

Baidu gives us:

心之所在即為家

This Baidu Zhidao question also gives a lot of examples:

心中向往的地方就是你的家

家是心之所在

心所在的地方是家。

but my absolute favorite, and honestly the best translation of this phrase has got to go to:

心所向，家所在。

Aurus Huang · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-22 08:04:26Z

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心在哪裡，家就在哪裡。
This is a direct translation.

answered Sep 22, 2015 at 8:04

Aurus Huang

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according to dictionaries and grammars: 哪里....哪里 (e.g.哪里有困难，他就出现在哪里), but 哪里。。。那里 also occurs: 哪里有困难，那里就有排忧解难的人民警察，哪里有灾难，那里就有浴血抗灾的人民警察
– user6065
Sep 22, 2015 at 13:14
Use 哪裡. It's different from your example.
– Aurus Huang
Sep 23, 2015 at 4:02
这是无可争议的。所有的词典和语法书都同意第一答案。There is no argument, dictionaries and grammars all agree with answer #1.
– user6065
Sep 23, 2015 at 5:03

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Siyi Deng · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-29 15:36:45Z

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From a classical Chinese poem by 蘇軾:

“此心安處是吾鄉”

answered Sep 29, 2015 at 15:36

Siyi Deng

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