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14
Feb · Wed 2007

nian nian you yu..

This is a common phrase to hear around the time of Chinese New Years. Directly translated character by character it means, "Year Year Have Surplus". A more natural English translation including the deeper meaning would be "Every Year may you Have Abundance in your life".

On a side note, this phrase often goes with a gift of something related to fish. This is because the last character "yu" which means surplus or abundance has exactly the same pronunciation in Mandarin as the word for "fish".

(2007-02-14 20:22:20 SGT) [chomp-chomp] Permalink Comments [3]

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Wah, can teach me? I have the mould, but i dunno how to do multicolor agar. :P

Posted by Steph on February 15, 2007 at 05:19 PM SGT #

steph,
look at this site of my friend, Lee

http://bakingmum.blogspot.com/2007/01/step-by-step-pictures-of-making-fish.html

Posted by biow on February 15, 2007 at 08:25 PM SGT #

I prefer to translate as "Every year got fish." And I like to say that, in English, to my parents. Haha.

Posted by spot on February 16, 2007 at 10:25 AM SGT #

14 Feb · Wed 2007

nian nian you yu..

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Feb · Wed 2007