Podcast Everyday Chinese Expressions (mandarin)

“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