👵 Gong xi fa cai meaning 🐻

Gong Xi Fa Cai Meaning. Gong Xi Fa Cai Mandarin and Gong Hey Fat Choy Cantonese. Gong xi fa cai. Basically Gong Xi Fa Cai Mandarin or in other Chinese dialects literally mean Congratulation and striking it richmaking a fortune. Quoted from TheStar 1122021 a senior lecturer majoring in Chinese Studies University of Malaya Prof Dr Yam Kah Kean said Gong Xi Fa Cai literally means good luck getting more wealth.

So when people greet you with or Gong Xi Fa Cai during the Chinese New Year what do you say.

If you literally translate Gong Xi Fa Chai it would mean wishing you enlarge your wealth So a literal translation is that you wish someone will become very rich but the phrase is generally used as Happy New Year. Gong Xi Fa Chai everyone. May you have a prosperous New Year. Fa Cai 發財 is to become rich or to make money. The typical Chinese New Years greeting translates more like Congratulations on being prosperous or wishing you prosperity than Happy New Year Gung Hay Fat Choy Cantonese while written the same way in Chinese and with similar meaning is pronounced somewhat differently from the Mandarin Gong Xi Fa Cai. If you literally translate Gong Xi Fa Chai it would mean wishing you enlarge your wealth So a literal translation is that you wish someone will become very rich but the phrase is generally used as Happy New Year.