Just a couple of weeks ago, we celebrated Halloween (wànshèng jié, 万圣节) in China. Although Halloween is not a big festival in the mainland (compared to the Spring Festival/Lunar New Year), it’s still widely celebrated across China.
So I thought of doing a quick post about Halloween.
Welcome to Ming Mandarin’s free online Mandarin Chinese lessons. In this lesson, let’s learn some common words and phrases regrading Halloween celebrations in China.
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Halloween Words & Phrases in Chinese
| Halloween | wànshèng jié | 万圣节 |
| Happy Halloween! | wànshèng jié kuàilè | 万圣节快乐 |
| Trick-or-treat | Bù gěi táng, jiù dǎodàn | 不给糖，就捣蛋 |
| What are you going to dress up as? | Nǐ yào dǎbàn chéng shénme? | 你要打扮成什么? |
| How do you plan to spend Halloween? | Nǐ dǎsuàn zěnme guò wànshèng jié? | 你打算怎么过万圣节? |
| I'm going to a Halloween party! | Wǒ huì cānjiā wànshèng jié pàiduì！ | 我会参加万圣节派对！ |
| I'm going to dress up as a ... | Wǒ yào dǎbàn chéng...... | 我要打扮成...... |
| Witch | nǚwū | 女巫 |
| Monster | guàiwù | 怪物 |
| Ghost | guǐhún | 鬼魂 |
| Vampire | xīxuèguǐ | 吸血鬼 |
| Zombie | jiāngshī | 僵尸 |
