Chinese Symbol For Birthday

Decorating By LittleLinda Updated 4 Jan 2007 , 1:49pm by MarieAnna

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LittleLinda Posted 4 Jan 2007 , 1:45am
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... or a good substitute. (Like "long life" or something) I need to do a cake for a college student's birthday ... he just got back from China. Any ideas? The mom asked for a Chinese symbol ... but I want it to have more "umph" than just that.

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lapazlady Posted 4 Jan 2007 , 1:53am
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You can look at www.chinesesymbols.com, maybe his name in Chinese?

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AlamoSweets Posted 4 Jan 2007 , 3:41am
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How about something like this cake that I did recently and make the symbol out of MMF and let it dry for a topper.

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AlamoSweets Posted 4 Jan 2007 , 3:48am
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How about something like this cake that I did recently and make the symbol out of MMF and let it dry for a topper. You could reverse the colors and make a red cake with white swirls and paint the swirls gold with luster dust and put a gold ribbon around the bottom edge.
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LittleLinda Posted 4 Jan 2007 , 11:56am
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Alamosweets,
Wow, that is beautiful; but my customer specifically asked for a sheetcake with a chinese symbol on it.

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lasidus1 Posted 4 Jan 2007 , 12:25pm
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i found this online, it says the first symbol is birth and the second is day. i dont know how to say happy birthday though.
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MarieAnna Posted 4 Jan 2007 , 1:49pm
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Linda,

You can look for a stencils at any craft store with chinese characters. They are pretty & they comes with bamboo signs, some words like 'Love" , "Peace/Balance", "Energy" and "Eternity".

Another idea is to use the chinese paper cuts. They come in chinese characters, ask his mom wich one does he belong.
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