六六大顺
liù liù dà shùn
may everything go smoothly
Character by character
六liù
six
six
六liù
six
six
大dà
great
great
顺shùn
smooth
smooth
Example
祝您新的一年六六大顺，身体健康！
Wishing you a new year in which everything goes smoothly, and good health!
Tone: positive (praise).
Usage and origin
A wish for New Year, birthdays and drinking games; it is why 66 and 666 are lucky sums. Online, 666 has also become slang for “brilliant”.
Learn this in Lesson 37 · HSK 5–6: 讨个吉利 (Lucky numbers and lucky words)
A dialogue, a reading, word cards with audio and a drill that uses it, in Learn Chinese with Bao. The first lessons of every level are free.
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