The first stroke of 八 hasn't even been written yet — don't be in such a hurry (nothing has started yet).
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The 八字 (eight characters) are the year, month, day, and hour of birth — each expressed as two Chinese characters (stem + branch). They form the basis of Chinese fortune-telling (命理). The idiom 八字还没一撇 means something hasn't even begun yet.
