HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR - YEAR OF THE OX

With the Chinese New Year arriving on 12 February, we are pleased to present five “Ox-picious” digital stickers in traditional and simplified Chinese characters for you to share with your friends and loved ones through the WhatsApp and WeChat messaging apps.

For download instructions, please click here.

	TRADITIONAL CHINESE	SIMPLIFIED CHINESE
Approximate meaning: Wishing you good fortune     Literal meaning: Great-luck-great-profit (‘Mandarin orange’ and ‘luck’ are homophones)
Approximate meaning: May there be surplus year after year     Literal meaning: Year-year-with-surplus (‘Fish’ and ‘surplus’ are homophones)
Approximate meaning: Happy new year   Literal meaning: New-year-happy
LEFT Approximate meaning: May all your wishes come true Literal meaning: Heart-think-thing-succeed     RIGHT Approximate meaning: May everything go as you wish Literal meaning: Ten thousand-things-as-want
Approximate meaning: May everything go smoothly   Literal meaning: One-sail-wind-smooth

How to delight your family and friends?

Follow the steps below to download and send these greetings to your friends and loved ones.*

1. For WeChat users 
2. For WhatsApp users with Android devices 
3. For WhatsApp users with Apple iOS devices

WeChat

1. Touch and hold each individual sticker above to save it to phone’s photo gallery. Open WeChat and click on “Me”.
   
2. Then tap on “Sticker Gallery”.
   
3. Tap the wheel gear icon in the upper right corner.
   
4. Click on “Custom Stickers”.
   
5. Tap the “+” icon to import the stickers from your phone’s gallery.
   

WhatsApp

You can download the “University of Oxford CNY Stickers” from WhatSticker, a popular third party website for WhatsApp users. Please note that Apple iOS and Android users must follow separate instructions to transfer the stickers to WhatsApp.

Android users

1. Download and install the latest version of "WhatSticker" from Google Play Store.
   
2. Click the "Add to Android" button in the sticker’s page in WhatSticker App.
   
3. You will be directed to WhatsApp. Tap the “Add to WhatsApp” button and the sticker pack will be imported into your WhatsApp.
   

iOS users

1. In order to import the stickers to WhatsApp, WhatSticker recommends users to download and install the latest version of "五色學倉頡 ONLINE" from Apple App Store to your phone.
   
2. Return to University of Oxford CNY Stickers on your mobile browser. Click the "Add to iPhone" button.
   
3. Tap “Open” to accept the use of "五色學倉頡 ONLINE". You may have to close pop-up ads that appear.
   
4. You will be directed to WhatsApp. Tap the “Save” button and the sticker pack will be imported into your WhatsApp.
   

*Disclaimer

Please note that by downloading the above mobile applications, you agree to abide by the terms and conditions outlined. You are responsible for making your own assessment of the information provided. The University of Oxford shall not be responsible for any loss or liability incurred.