恭喜发财
gōng xǐ fā cái
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Traditional: 恭喜發財
The classic Lunar New Year greeting: congratulations, and may you prosper. Said when people meet during the festival; children traditionally say it before receiving red envelopes.
Lời chúc Tết quen thuộc: chúc mừng và chúc làm ăn phát đạt. Thường nói khi gặp nhau dịp năm mới âm lịch; trẻ em hay nói câu này trước khi nhận lì xì.
Register: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 061 (2026-11-13). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ ; en.wiktionary Vietnamese entries via kaikki.org extract, snapshot 2026-07-31 (CC BY-SA 4.0): etymology of “cung hỉ phát tài” = 恭喜發財 · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “cung hỉ phát tài” (cung-hi-phat-tai). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “恭喜发财” mean?
The classic Lunar New Year greeting: congratulations, and may you prosper. Said when people meet during the festival; children traditionally say it before receiving red envelopes. Literally: respectful congratulations, grow rich
Is “恭喜发财” formal or informal?
恭喜发财 is generally neutral.