Chinese New Year Greeting Words or Phrases
Here’re a collection of popular Chinese new year auspicious greeting and blessing phrases in Chinese along with an English translation for each. Phrases that consist of 4 Chinese characters are most commonly used formats, although there’re phrases that consist of 5 or 7 characters.
4-Character Phrases (吉祥語句)
恭喜發財 : wish you have good fortune
財源廣進 : may there be more sources of income/revenue
年年有餘 : may there be surpluses every year
歲歲平安 : may you live safely and peacefully every year
和氣生財 : harmony brings wealth
招財進寶 : wish you can attract plenty of money and treasures
一帆風順 : wishing you every success
心想事成 : may all your wishes come true
萬事如意 / 萬事勝意 : wish everything works out as you’ve expected
身體健康 : wish you have good health
生意興隆 : may your business flourish and prosper
步步高陞 : may your career grow
學業猛進 : wish you the best on your study (for students)
年生貴子 : may your family have new gem members this year
To get an idea of how to say any of the above phrases, click here to go to an experimental online Chinese text-to-speech system from MS. Copy the phrase over there, select Chinese, then click “Synthesize”.
Consider sending a Chinese new year AniGreeting, personalized with any of the above phrases, to each of your friends and love ones to show you care! AniGreetings are more than traditional e-cards. You may personalize an anigreeting with not only photos and words entered from keyboard, but also your handwritings and drawings. As your friends and love ones may save a copy of your anigreetings to themselves, you give your recipients a sense of possession of your greetings. They’ll feel that you seriously care about them by sending them anigreetings.
Add comment February 16, 2007
