“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 🙂 Subscribe in […]

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“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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