算命先生

suànmìng xiānsheng
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 fortune-teller

Examples

HSK 3
Jiēkǒu zuò zhe yí ge suànmìng xiānsheng.
A fortune-teller sits at the street corner.
HSK 7-9
Suànmìng xiānsheng kànwán tā de shǒuxiàng, shuō tā sìshí suì yǐhòu huì fācái.
After reading his palm, the fortune-teller said he would get rich after forty.

Tips

culture
A 算命先生 works out a person's fate from their 八字 (the eight characters of their birth date), from 面相 (face reading) or from 手相 (palm reading). 先生 here is the old polite title for a man of learning or a profession, as for a doctor or teacher.

Stroke Order

算 suàn
命 mìng
先 xiān
生 shēng