Kung Hei Fat Choi:
Kung Hei Fat Choi is the most normal and useful chinese new year greeting message! in fact, if you want you pronounce more similar to chinese Mandarin you can say"gone see far Choi".If you want to greeting in Cantonese,then "Kung Hei Fat Choi“is the right pronunciation.happy chinese new year:
http://www.chinesenewyear.me/happy-chinese-new-year.htmlChildren and teenagers sometimes jokingly use the phrase,roughly translated as "Congratulations and be prosperous, now give me a red envelope!".
In the Hakka dialect the saying is more commonly said as 'Gung hee fatt choi, fung bao diu loi' which would be written as 恭喜發財,紅包逗來 - a mixture of the Cantonese and Mandarin variants of the saying.
Back in the 1970s, children in Hong Kong used the saying: 恭喜發財,利是逗來,伍毫嫌少,壹蚊唔愛 (Cantonese), roughly translated as, "Congratulations and be prosperous, now give me a red envelope, fifty cents is too little, don't want a dollar either." It basically meant that they disliked small change – coins which were called "hard substance" (Cantonese: 硬嘢). Instead, they wanted "soft substance" (Cantonese: 軟嘢), which was either a ten dollar or a twenty dollar bill.
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