Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, marks the start of a new lunar year. How to wish someone Happy New Year in ChineseThere are multiple ways to wish someone a Happy New Year in Cantonese or Mandarin. As this year is the Year of Ox, to say "happy ox year" it would be 牛年快樂 (ngau4 nin4 faai3 lok6) in Cantonese or 牛年快乐 (niú nián kuài lè) in Mandarin. Mandarin is the most common dialect in China, and people often use the phrase “Happy Spring Festival” at this time of year. You can also say "wishing you good health", which is 身體健康 (san1 tai2 gin6 hong1) in Cantonese or 身体健康 (shēn tǐ jiàn kāng) in Mandarin.

Source: Daily Mirror February 12, 2021 05:00 UTC