手相(てそう)

てそう
noun
palm lines; palmistry
1. palm lines; palmistry
The lines and features of a person's palm, believed in palmistry to reveal character and fortune.
手相(てそう)を見(み)てもらう。
To have one's palm read.
彼女(かのじょ)は手相(てそう)に詳(くわ)しい。
She knows a lot about palmistry.
占(うらな)い師(し)は私(わたし)の手相(てそう)を見(み)て、長生(ながい)きすると言(い)った。
The fortune-teller looked at my palm and said I would live a long life.

The pattern of lines on the palm, and the practice of reading them to tell fortunes. The verb 見(み)る is used for reading a palm.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS:

  • 手相(てそう)を見(み)る: to read a palm
  • 手相(てそう)を見(み)てもらう: to have one's palm read
  • 手相(てそう)占(うらな)い: palm reading

SIMILAR WORDS:

  • 人相(にんそう): physiognomy — reading character and fortune from the face instead of the palm
  • 運勢(うんせい): one's fortune; luck — the fortune itself that such reading reveals
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