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Gong Xi Fa Cai in Chinese

Children and teenagers sometimes jokingly use the phrase (Traditional Chinese:恭喜發財,紅包拿來, Simplified Chinese: 恭喜发财,红包拿来) (Mandarin PinYin: gōng xǐ fā cái, hóng bāo ná lái) (Cantonese: 恭喜發財,利是逗來) roughly translated as “Congratulations and be prosperous, now give me a red envelope!”. In the Hakka dialect the saying is more commonly said as #39;Gung hee fatt choi, fung bao diu loi#39; 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

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Gong Xi Fa Cai in Chinese