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New Years Greetings Rally?! :O)


geek_frappa

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I live in Melbourne. We have flags with the text 新年快樂 (Mandarin: Xīnnián kuàilè) but next to it a romanised Cantonese text "kung hei fat choi" (it should be "gung hei faat choih"), which is the Cantonese for (恭喜發財). I checked this expression and found this exists in Mandarin as well (gōngxǐfācái).

Is this silly? I mean, the romanisation should match what is written in characters? Aren't they 2 different expressions?

I post the above in trad,, simpl, Mandarin pinyin and Cantonese Yale plus another one I found:

新年快乐 / 新年快樂 / Xīnnián kuàilè / san1 nin4 faai3 lok6

恭喜發財 / 恭喜发财 / gōngxǐfācái / gung1 hei2 faat3 choi4

恭贺新禧 / 恭賀新禧 / gōnghèxīnxǐ / gung1 ho6 san1 hei1

Is it possible just to say, as in Japanese (kyōga shinnen)?:

恭贺新年 / 恭賀新年 / gōnghè xīnnián

I saw many other signs, one had 4 characters. I didn't have a pen to copy the characters.

"祝 ? 好 ?" Which one could it be?

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