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title: "Happy birthday in Chinese Calligraphy (生日快乐): Cursive, Running and Regular Script"
description: "Happy birthday in Chinese calligraphy is 生日快乐 (shēngrì kuàilè). See it in three brush scripts, regular (楷书), running (行书) and cursive (草书), across or down, and save each as an image. Free, no sign-up."
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author: "Mandarin The Wild"
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# Happy birthday in Chinese calligraphy

生日快乐 shēngrì kuàilè. Happy birthday, the words of the birthday song.

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Chinese characters, or a word in English

## 楷书 kǎishū · Regular script

生日快乐

## 行书 xíngshū · Running script

生日快乐

## 草书 cǎoshū · Cursive script

生日快乐

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## How do you write happy birthday in Chinese calligraphy?

Happy birthday is 生日快乐 (shēngrì kuàilè). Happy birthday, the words of the birthday song.

## Which script should I choose for 生日快乐?

Regular script (楷书) is the one every Chinese reader can read, so it suits a tattoo, a gift or a sign. Running script (行书) looks handwritten and still reads easily. Cursive (草书) is the most beautiful and the hardest to read.

## Is this real calligraphy?

These are brush fonts, made from a calligrapher’s writing, so every copy of a character looks the same. A calligrapher’s own hand changes each stroke with the brush and the ink. For something to keep, such as a tattoo, have a calligrapher write it.

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Brush fonts Ma Shan Zheng, Zhi Mang Xing and Liu Jian Mao Cao, under the SIL Open Font License. Meanings from our own dictionary. Nothing you type is kept.