A type of hollow snack, common in westernized Chinese cuisine: a crisp sugary wafer containing a message on a narrow strip of paper, generally with a wise or vaguely prophetic message or random numbers usable in a lottery printed on the paper.

(mythology, philosophy) The mythological wheel whose turns, which are random, determine men’s fortunes. / A particular card in a tarot deck.

(idiomatic) To tell someone's destiny or future, usually by magic.

At the height of prosperity.

Good luck.

plural of fortune stick

One of a set of numbered bamboo slips that correspond to messages concerning the future, drawn by a supplicant in Taoist divination.

Bad luck; misfortune

A person who eagerly seeks wealth without working to earn it, especially in an adventurous way or in an unsavory or unscrupulous way such as through marriage.

Synonym of fortune hunter