恭喜发财 — stroke order
Learn how to write 恭喜发财 (gōngxǐfācái), which means “May you have a prosperous New Year!”. It is written with 4 characters and 34 strokes in total. In traditional Chinese it is written 恭喜發財. Each character below is animated in the correct Chinese stroke order inside a 米字格 practice grid — tap any character to replay it, or use “Play all strokes” to watch the whole word written in order.
Character by character
| Character | Pinyin | 注音 | Meaning | Strokes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 恭 | gōng | ㄍㄨㄥ | polite, respectful, reverent | 10 |
| 喜 | xǐ | ㄒㄧˇ | to love | 12 |
| 发 | fā | ㄈㄚ | to issue, to dispatch, to send out | 5 |
| 财 | cái | ㄘㄞˊ | riches, wealth, valuables | 7 |