寿星
English translation: birthday gent/lady
| 00:27 May 17, 2017 |
| Chinese to English translations [PRO] Folklore / Birthday Celebration | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Frank Zou China Local time: 21:09 | ||||||
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| 5 | birthday girl or birthday boy. |
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| 4 +1 | birthday gent/lady |
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5 days confidence: 
birthday girl or birthday boy. Explanation: We call someone having their birthdays "寿星”, for both male and female. |
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4 hrs confidence: 
peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1birthday gent/lady Explanation: Looks like native speakers also struggle with the expression. https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/birthday-celebrant-o... https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/8186/is-there-a-... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 7天 (2017-05-24 04:44:59 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- boy/girl sounds informal, that's why gent/lady is better than boy/girl. Adjustment needs to be made to keep the seriousness |
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