Mandarin term (), for red envelopes bearing auspicious Chinese phrases or characters containing money and handed out as gifts, particularly during the Lunar New Year festival. People often read souvenir wrongly as soften-near. In 2015 University of Hong Kong professor Lisa Lim stated that some of the words, by that year, had declined in usage. See also Chinese Pidgin English Phonemic differentiation Regional accents of English Chinglish Singlish Macanese Portuguese Code-switching in Hong Kong Education in Hong Kong Hong Kong Cantonese Languages of Hong Kong References External links Caryn Yeo, (23 Feb 2009). "Hong Kong's English, Cantonese conundrum", The Straits Times "The cat got your mother tongue? – The Brits make a linguistic comeback", The Economist (12 June 2008) English Dialects of English City colloquials