Happy New Year

Here's another clip from our cheeky Frenchman in Macau; his bite-sized chunks are just right for me and my small brain cells:

Here are all the characters and Jyutping equivalents used in this video:

恭           gung1 - respectful; deferential

喜           hei2 - happy; joyful; auspicious

發/发   faat3 – become; come to be

財           coi4 - wealth; riches; money

恭喜你           gung1 hei2 nei5 – congratulations to you

利市?來        lai6 si6 dau6 loi4 - Cheeky request for a red packet of lucky money

Interestingly, I've only managed to get the character for dau6 to display with a font called AR PL ZenKai Uni which you should be able to find here or here. The character seems also to be represented by two unicodes. Once you have the font installed, you can check for the definition at Cantodict here.

For those interested, I've shown an image of the character from that font below.
利市       lai6 si6 – lucky money

 dau6 – receive; ask for



來/来       loi4 – come; coming; arrive