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快樂 or joyfulness is an inner sense of peace and happiness.
You appreciate the gifts each day brings. Without joyfulness, when the fun stops, our happiness stops. Joy can carry us through hard times even when we are feeling very sad.
快樂 can also mean pleasure, enjoyment, delight, cheerfulness, or merry. In some ways, this is the essence that makes someone perceived as a charming person.
生日快樂 is how to write “Happy Birthday” in Chinese.
The first two characters mean “birthday,” and the second two characters mean “happiness,” or rather a wish for happiness.
Because a birthday only lasts one day per year, we strongly suggest that you find an appropriate and personal calligraphy gift that can be hung in the recipient's home year-round.
If you want to wish someone a happy new year, 新年快樂 is the way.
You can hang this up during Western New Years (Dec 31st - Jan 1st) and keep it up until after Chinese New Year which happens in either January or February of each year (it changes from year to year because China uses a lunar calendar).
Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your 快樂 search...
Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
快樂 快乐 see styles |
kuài lè kuai4 le4 k`uai le kuai le keraku |
More info & calligraphy: Joyfulness / HappinessJoyful. |
新年快樂 新年快乐 see styles |
xīn nián kuài lè xin1 nian2 kuai4 le4 hsin nien k`uai le hsin nien kuai le |
More info & calligraphy: Happy New Year |
生日快樂 生日快乐 see styles |
shēng rì kuài lè sheng1 ri4 kuai4 le4 sheng jih k`uai le sheng jih kuai le |
More info & calligraphy: Happy Birthday |
聖誕快樂 圣诞快乐 see styles |
shèng dàn kuài lè sheng4 dan4 kuai4 le4 sheng tan k`uai le sheng tan kuai le |
More info & calligraphy: Merry Christmas |
得快樂 得快乐 see styles |
dé kuài lè de2 kuai4 le4 te k`uai le te kuai le toku keraku |
experiences joy |
快快樂樂 快快乐乐 see styles |
kuài kuài lè lè kuai4 kuai4 le4 le4 k`uai k`uai le le kuai kuai le le |
happy |
快樂主義 快乐主义 see styles |
kuài lè zhǔ yì kuai4 le4 zhu3 yi4 k`uai le chu i kuai le chu i keraku shugi |
hedonism |
快樂幸福 快乐幸福 see styles |
kuài lè xìng fú kuai4 le4 xing4 fu2 k`uai le hsing fu kuai le hsing fu |
cheerful; happy |
快樂大本營 快乐大本营 see styles |
kuài lè dà běn yíng kuai4 le4 da4 ben3 ying2 k`uai le ta pen ying kuai le ta pen ying |
Happy Camp (PRC TV series) |
助人為快樂之本 助人为快乐之本 see styles |
zhù rén wéi kuài lè zhī běn zhu4 ren2 wei2 kuai4 le4 zhi1 ben3 chu jen wei k`uai le chih pen chu jen wei kuai le chih pen |
pleasure from helping others |
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
Joyfulness Happiness | 快樂 快乐 | kai raku / kairaku | kuài lè / kuai4 le4 / kuai le / kuaile | k`uai le / kuaile / kuai le |
Happy Birthday | 生日快樂 生日快乐 | shēng rì kuài lè sheng1 ri4 kuai4 le4 sheng ri kuai le shengrikuaile | sheng jih k`uai le shengjihkuaile sheng jih kuai le |
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Happy New Year | 新年快樂 新年快乐 | xīn nián kuài lè xin1 nian2 kuai4 le4 xin nian kuai le xinniankuaile | hsin nien k`uai le hsinnienkuaile hsin nien kuai le |
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Merry Christmas | 聖誕快樂 圣诞快乐 | shèng dàn kuài lè sheng4 dan4 kuai4 le4 sheng dan kuai le shengdankuaile | sheng tan k`uai le shengtankuaile sheng tan kuai le |
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In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese. |
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All of our calligraphy wall scrolls are handmade.
When the calligrapher finishes creating your artwork, it is taken to my art mounting workshop in Beijing where a wall scroll is made by hand from a combination of silk, rice paper, and wood.
After we create your wall scroll, it takes at least two weeks for air mail delivery from Beijing to you.
Allow a few weeks for delivery. Rush service speeds it up by a week or two for $10!
When you select your calligraphy, you'll be taken to another page where you can choose various custom options.
The wall scroll that Sandy is holding in this picture is a "large size"
single-character wall scroll.
We also offer custom wall scrolls in small, medium, and an even-larger jumbo size.
Professional calligraphers are getting to be hard to find these days.
Instead of drawing characters by hand, the new generation in China merely type roman letters into their computer keyboards and pick the character that they want from a list that pops up.
There is some fear that true Chinese calligraphy may become a lost art in the coming years. Many art institutes in China are now promoting calligraphy programs in hopes of keeping this unique form
of art alive.
Even with the teachings of a top-ranked calligrapher in China, my calligraphy will never be good enough to sell. I will leave that to the experts.
The same calligrapher who gave me those lessons also attracted a crowd of thousands and a TV crew as he created characters over 6-feet high. He happens to be ranked as one of the top 100 calligraphers in all of China. He is also one of very few that would actually attempt such a feat.
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