Chinese New Year, you may be wondering the best ways to wish your friends a happy New Year.Maybe you have heard others use traditional Chinese greetings and wondered what the phrases meant?
If you want to impress your friends as we celebrate the Year of the Ox, here are some of the most common greetings and well-wishes you could use - in both Mandarin and Cantonese.
There are three main ways to wish someone a Happy New Year in Chinese. In Mandarin, Happy New Year is translated as ‘xin nian’ (new year) ‘kuai le’ (happy), pronounced as shin nee-an kwai le.This is arguably the most formal of all the greetings, and can be said in passing to strangers.
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