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POPULAR CHINESE NEW YEAR GREETINGS

Want to get into the festive spirit of the Spring Festival and experience the new year once again. Well, don’t worry, here’s your chance to relive it with an altogether different culture and vibrancy, it’s Chinese New Year! Whether you’re watching the dragon dance in China or Chinatown, we will round up the most popular Chinese New Year greetings so you can fit in like a native. Here is how to wish health, wealth and good fortune.

How to say I ‘wish you’?

Zhù nǐ…

祝你……

Wish you (more informal and common)


Zhù nín…

祝您……

Wish you (more formal and respectful e.g. for elderly)


Then add +

Xīnnián kuàilè!
新年快乐!
Happy New Year!

Xīnnián hǎo
新年好!
Happy New Year!

Guònián hǎo
过年好!
Happy New Year! (过年 literally meaning passing to the new year)

Chūnjié kuàilè
春节快乐!
Happy Spring Festival! (Chinese New Year is commonly referred to as the ‘Spring Festival’ heralding the arrival of Spring

Xīnchūn kuàilè!
新春快乐
Happy New Spring!

gōng xǐ fā cái
恭喜发财
Wish you wealth and prosperity

dà jí dà lì
大吉大利
May you have great luck and great profit

nián nián yǒu yú
年年有余
May you have abundance every year.

shì yè fā dá
事业发达
May your career take off.

shēng yì xīng lóng
生意兴隆
May your business flourish

bù bù gāo shēng
步步高升
May every step take you higher

xīn xiǎng shì chéng
心想事成
May all your wishes come true

wàn shì rú yì
万事如意
May everything go well with you

shēn tǐ jiàn kāng
身体健康
Wish you good health

xué yè jìn bù
学业进步
May your studies improve

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