“Happy birthday!”:
- shēng rì kuài lè!(生日快乐!)
“Happy birthday to you!”:
- zhù nǐ shēng rì kuài lè!(祝你生日快乐!)
Sometimes people make fun of close friends by replacing the first character, zhù (祝, wish), with zhū (猪, pig), so the sentence becomes:
“Happy birthday to you, pig!”:
- zhū nǐ shēng rì kuài lè!(猪你生日快乐!)
Happy birthday to myself 🙂
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