çˆ¶äº²èŠ‚å¿«ä¹ (Traditional: 父親節快樂) = Happy Father's Day ( you may click the Chinese characters to get the pronunciation and click the Play button to listen to the sound). This year it will be on 6/16/2013.
We can say å…æœˆåå…號是父親節 ( June 16th is Father's Day ).
On that day, you should call him and say "è€è±†ä½ 好ï¼"
..ä½ å¥½ï¼ means so and so, how are you?
è€è±† or è€ç«‡ is an informal way to call daddy.
The Cantonese word 爹地 is actually a borrowed word from English “Daddy"
We often call our elderly daddy è€çˆ¹ (Old Dad). Similar to Mandarin.
We should also say " è€ç«‡æˆ‘好掛ä½ä½ 啊 ï¼â€ ( = Daddy, how I miss you! ) if you call home from far away. Take good care of your father and send him more love if you still can. I cannot any more as he passed away many years ago. There's a Chinese saying from a famous peom: 忬²é¤Šè€Œè¦ªä¸å¾… ( When the son wants to support the parents who have passed away. ) A pretty close translation of the sentences in that Chinese poem can be found at Dict.cn: æ ‘æ¬²é™è€Œé£Žä¸æ¢ï¼Œå欲养而亲ä¸å¾….
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