誕生日おめでとうございます tanjōbi omedetō gozaimasu Happy Birthday

誕生日 tanjōbi is the birthday; おめでとう omedetō is the congratulation said at New Year and at any happy event, from めでたい, auspicious, a word as old as the Taketori monogatari; ございます is the polite verb that turns a word into an address to someone. So the Japanese says it is auspicious where the English wishes happy, and it is a congratulation rather than a wish.

The design carries the whole polite form, not the short tanjōbi omedetō.

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