看命先生

Chinese

		T	life; fate	early; prior; former early; prior; former; in advance; first	to be born; to give birth; life to be born; to give birth; life; to grow; student; raw
simp. and trad. (看命先生)		看	命	先	生

Pronunciation

Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): kua⁴ mia⁵ seng¹ sa¹ / kuann⁴ mia⁵ seng¹ sann¹
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): khòaⁿ-miā sian-siⁿ

Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: kua⁴ mia⁵ seng¹ sa¹ [Phonetic: kua¹ mia⁵ leng⁵ na¹]
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: kua̍ⁿ-miā seng-saⁿ
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰua⁴²⁻⁵⁵ mia¹¹ ^(ɬ-)lɛŋ⁵³³⁻¹¹ ^(ɬ-)na⁵³³/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: kuann⁴ mia⁵ seng¹ sann¹ [Phonetic: kuann¹ mia⁵ leng⁵ na¹]
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʰũã⁴²⁻⁵⁵ mia²¹ ^(ɬ-)lɛŋ⁵⁴⁴⁻²¹ ^(ɬ-)na⁵⁴⁴/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien: General Taiwanese)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: khòaⁿ-miā sian-siⁿ
  - Tâi-lô: khuànn-miā sian-sinn
  - Phofsit Daibuun: qvoarmia siensvy
  - IPA (Taipei): /kʰuã¹¹⁻⁵³ miã³³⁻¹¹ siɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ sĩ⁴⁴/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /kʰuã²¹⁻⁴¹ miã³³⁻²¹ siɛn⁴⁴⁻³³ sĩ⁴⁴/

Verb

看命先生

(Hokkien and Puxian Min) fortuneteller

Synonyms

半仙 (Xiamen Hokkien)
有司 (yǒusī) (archaic)
看命仙 (Hokkien)
相命仙 (Taiwanese Hokkien)
相命的 (Hokkien)
相命者 (xiàngmìngzhě)
算命仔 (Hakka)
算命仙 (Hakka, Taiwanese Hokkien)
算命佬 (syun³ meng⁶ lou²) (Cantonese)
算命先生 (suànmìng xiānsheng) (male fortuneteller)
算命家 (suànmìngjiā)

References

莆田市政协文化文史和学习委员会 [Culture, History and Learning Committee of Putian CPPCC], editor (2021), “看命先生”, in 莆仙方言大词典 [Comprehensive Dictionary of Puxian Dialect] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), Xiamen University Press, →ISBN, page 336.