What Your Face Says About You - Chinese Physiognomy

手相 面相 相學 is physiognomy. It's basically the reading of your palm, face, or body features and its relations to your personality and fortune. Let's look at some common features of everyday people and interpret the meaning with Chinese physiognomy. Tell us if there are anymore that you know!
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[@ssbbsonic1]

My face says that I am asian, case closed

[@kimkhamis6420]

I believe u...!!!

[@loganrocksmith362]

more like eyes closed

[@sarahmueller8845]

You just go up to a person and put fingers on their eyebrows 😂

[@ranfaraj4605]

Hahahahahah!

[@henrietta8443]

The toe thing was so accurate it blew my mind

[@here5574]

Love watching OTGW! Fun + informative at the same time :D

[@coldheart520]

I love learning these information! Do more of these video guys!

[@goldscarabbeetle]

Yes - please make this a series! I love physiognomy because it's fun. I have a mole on my ear and my parents say it means I'm lucky or something.

[@MiescheMorality]

The bloopers made me laugh. "Whaaaaat" Is this Chinese?" lolol, Dan.

[@SeitanoShuuki]

The accent is hilarious (you did pretty well in the end!). xD Really interesting video.

[@michaelmanning2623]

You guys are great!!! I worked on Hong Kong for 12 years...I loved the culture and the people...Thanks for making this so much fun....

[@kysergamingcsgo8014]

This episode is so great. I can't stop repeating the feature part.

[@dreamwanderer9769]

The thumbnail brought me so much joy, thank you kind stranger. Also really good video!

[@sofiaogai9170]

Love this vid totally sharing with my friend

[@yukimuara19]

YAY FOR MY CHUBBY FINGERS LOL I also heard from my grandmother that having large ears that faced out instead of inward is considered someone with a lot of wisdom. She is a very traditional chinese grandmother.

[@comebackata2]

What the heck is a beak shaped mouth!? googling it only leads to pictures of birds

[@emmasims3003]

Lol.

[@justbrea8093]

I'm assuming its a permanent duck face?? Like that lip thing girls do when they take pictures??

[@comebackata2]

that's possible ... though i never met anyone with duck face expressions by default

[@hayleijackson9318]

Like kind of pointed at the mouth area. A little bit of out and normal lips but pointed not like a point but I'm sure you know what I mean.

[@comebackata2]

I kind of have an idea but ... don't all lips have a bit protruding out? maybe you could post a link to a picture here?

[@One_Winged_Warrior]

love his effort to say all the sayings

[@NTDOffTheGreatWall]

Yup, planning on it. There's just so much!

[@chikugaru3107]

THIS IS GREAT!!

[@xxshystarxx]

Yeah, one time I fainted when I was up on a hill due to dehydration, and when I regained consciousness, a man was pressing my philtrum ... I was so weirded out haha.

[@agskater1914]

Dude, great job with the Chinese! I love the little end clip :3

[@domecekrpopanenky]

I love your videos! Greeting from The Czech Republic :)

[@jayjaywong8646]

Awesome vid. I was told that the depth of the philtrum shows how much you respect and how well you treat your family. The deeper it is, the more family oriented you are. Also, the more fingers (fingerprints) you have with swirl mean the more creative you are.

[@samaraisnt]

The hair whirl thing is a great correlation to creativity! It makes sense someone might call you stubborn the more creatively inclined you are…anyway it’s just for fun. :) My brothers both have one & I have lucky ears ^_^

[@CubbieBearandAmyBear]

Quick and good. Make more! :)

[@fifi17thao]

OMG most of these are right!!!! wow this is awesome

[@ChinaIcons]

This is really interesting!

[@MsCuteBuzz]

I really like this , I am Arab and loads of people tell me not to read up on other traditions but i love to so i really love this channel ^_^ THANK YOU xoxo

[@srepahzatulzzz9610]

I have Mortan's toe and im pretty closed to my mom... Well maybe THATS NOT MY MOM

[@unoki99]

same here :)

[@ccvergara1668]

lol

[@friedchicken1]

me too. i was very close to my mom and my second toe is slightly longer than my thumb

[@anissak-witherell7893]

My mother has Mortans toe and she is not close to her mom MIND BLOWN

[@kirarinchan9419]

friedchicken1981 do u know their a difference between mom and mother, u can call anybody mom(cause she not the one who give birth to u), i dont think i need to explain the word mother now. Just telling u b/c u write "mom" or u just didnt know

[@foodlovers8543]

hahaha I love it!!! keep it coming

[@auroraomelas4220]

That toe thing really works! My mom has it and she haattteess her mother

[@nanci_sousa]

Omg! My partner has that toe and is not close to his mother. Interesting

[@One_Winged_Warrior]

love his effort to say all the sayings I

[@jhudoraevil333]

The way you pronounce chinese is hilarious =D keep up the great work!

[@janettec6433]

Dude can you please do more of this videos!!!!

[@fana2169]

Nice info :D am pretty normal then after this description :).

[@nisreentalib9340]

thank you

[@saracowgill2144]

That was good!

[@Pamoulove93]

So interesting! ^^

[@ambedo5912]

i like every video with this guy in :)))

[@thepinkaholiclol5041]

That last bit was hilarious

[@winonadaphne6445]

woahhhh....that first dude was a psychic, he avoid being murdered from judging the emperor's face loooooool

[@EUNIO]

omf thats so cool. the line before the elbow thing. even paused the video to check tbh xD

[@madisonh4666]

Please do more videos on this topic

[@GinaMarieGuyette]

I have three-finger spaced eyebrows. WHAT'RE YOU TRYING TO SAY?! 8C!! (seriously that was my inner dialogue and I laughed b/c it's in harmony with the saying)

[@slcommitment]

LOVE that part of green background 😂😂😂

[@fredericasteller7280]

Interesting & funny!

[@Clemmilicious89]

The last bit was pretty entertaining. Haha, i was practicing that line myself too. :)

[@NTDOffTheGreatWall]

i heard of that before too!

[@JariSatta]

1:42 Eyestache hahaha

[@SovandyBoy]

I'm all positive ^^ Anyway both of you are so friendly.

[@happymusics]

Share some more of these infos of Physiognomy! Fun.

[@Saphira4Q]

I'm in BIG trouble!!! LOL!

[@KeVtArO]

I had that Han Chinese "line" too, but I'm Hmong. Interesting!

[@ewg7557]

THE ELBOW THING IS SO COOL. Well, yeah, I knew I was Han Chinese, but... STILL COOL.

[@lillyyangflute]

Hahaha this was very interesting! :D

[@lilianh1100]

Cool! I didn't know that

[@nagisafudge1147]

That toe one is very true for me

[@whitejade2070]

Last one got me lol 3 whorls = 打架不要命 😂

[@nieni1999]

@offthegreatwall i wonder if these Chinese Physiognomy theories of eyebrows have something to do with how they did their eyebrow makeup in Asia in the ancient days. (I have seen your video about it)

[@joiedevivre7376]

phis-ee-ON-o-mee - no 'hard' G...I liked listening to your Chinese!

[@ccvergara1668]

that ending though! xD

[@chiara914]

I have a line before elbow, but I'm Italian

[@rebeccacornel8199]

haha......so funny and nice video

[@katelynnlee5158]

Lol 😂 The toe and hair whirls are true.

[@zuogehaoren]

very correct, for example I'm han chinese and I do have a line below elbow

[@odangoatama98]

OMG! Someone I know has King Gou Jian's features! AHHH! Good thing i never wanted to associate with him in the first place.

[@tahirbayramov8570]

Thin lip is really accurate experienced it.

[@meliiora]

Omg the Morton's toe is so true in my situation

[@kit0825]

I have heard that if one has rough skin they are extremely competitive, and will even view simple everyday tasks as if there was a score board. If one has smooth skin they are sweet. When one's mouth and or eyebrows (not including the arch) is very, if not perfectly in a strait horizontal line they are logical. And of course, those with dimples are carefree, fun to be around, however they take on other's traits and problems easily.

[@starzcharmed]

So you're telling me I'm awesome. I am okay with this.

[@xiangjuntan7952]

So true

[@KatieLee235]

I am dying. this is so funny. Chinese have the strangest theories, but at the same time, it makes perfect sense!!

[@FAB5ninja]

The bloopers are funny

[@newzodiac1111]

everything was true about me wow yay thats good! x

[@based420]

I have three head whirls. My parents were so worried about me when I was still a baby lol I guess it's right, in terms of fighting in my exams

[@DianeNeubauer]

I also have the lines on my forearms about an inch from my inner elbow... I think Chinese friends once noticed and made something of it. But I am a mix of European and a bit Native American. Chinese friends said I looked half Chinese (but they hadn't really seen someone half Chinese before) -- they said it was my eyebrows. Thick and dark.

[@samaraisnt]

We natives descended from Asian people, that’s why we are mistaken for “Chinese” (they mean you look generally Asian, they’re just i-g-n-o-r-a-n-t.) Also, these types of traits can exist predominantly in a group but not every single person has it, traits do overlap with Indigenous folks. For instance, 90% of East Asian people have a gene that means you don’t create BO or wet ear wax, we share that trait and it’s the majority of Natives as well. But it doesn’t mean someone without BO is Chinese…it’s just a bad correlation. We’re all related in the human family anyway. :)

[@miscellany4927]

hahaha, dan, i can totally empathise with the difficulty in speaking chinese XD

[@renee7880]

This is so true..... Omg

[@shadownacht6244]

The Morton's toe one was surprisingly true.

[@AlexandreMakani]

The Hair Whirl is also believed in the Philippines and it is very very accurate

[@xia0jieqq]

good one ;DD hehe

[@nikkie1a]

I am a Han Chinese and I can now prove it :D I never knew I had that line there before.

[@friedchicken1]

curly hair and you're crazy, i just noticed it. also i heard that in the dominican republic small ears mean long life

[@KellyChenSG]

Interesting! More? :)

[@chicarrr9484]

Plz don’t tell me i was the only one who started looking for english captions when the video started djbxksls

[@nikoniii5493]

I can't w Jolie and Jennifer hahhahha

[@lovelylucinda7055]

AYYYEE Finally a reason to be happy about my chubby hands xP

[@Bj-yf3im]

I have those lines on my forearms, too, but I'm white! :P

[@creepersonspeed5490]

I love how you can see the societal values that develops these theories: fat hands means lots of food, rich and not labour work. And so on

[@gdlgma]

Holy I checked if I had a line an inch before my elbow, and on both of my arms, I have one!

[@LovelyLingiLee]

hahah the last part :D

[@point2600]

love the bloopers he looks his Mandarin/Cantonese? looks so good in the video but he struggles thnx bro

[@gabriellez613]

oooh interesting

[@77devon]

the ones about my eyebrows and hands were true so i was like woaa cool, then he talked about that line and i have it on my right arm and i'm full dutch o.o but people always say i have asian eyes? MOM?

[@LittleAmyHe]

My mom is Han Chinese, my sister and I are both half Han Chinese. My dad is from the "Strong" Chinese tribe. I have one prominent line below my right elbow and a less prominent one inflow left elbow. My mom's lines are the least prominent and sister and dad have the most prominent and number of lines.

[@siskaoei]

my son has 3. 2 of them right on top like the usual spot where ppl have them. one of them right in front, above his forehead

[@WolframxYuuri95]

Well... The Morton's Toe is surprisingly true... I got them on both feet and my mom and I aren't exactly close. She doesn't even know what kind of clothes I like to wear or why I chose acting as a career.

[@NTDOffTheGreatWall]

I have one

[@oldfaithful04]

I have Morton's Toe and my mom is my closest friend...sorry to shoot that one down! I will keep in mind about the eyebrows though. ;) Have you done a video about hand lines? My Chinese friends say my love line is broken, then has an extra line. Apparently some Chinese put a lot of stock into hand lines.

[@RainbowPaint]

My family is Cambodian and when my niece was born with two hair whirls they were like "uh oh" haha.

[@hanalakri6015]

you,re so funny lol

[@NurikoGLAY]

morton's toe in chinese says 二指長過公，唔洗一世窮, means that u won't be in poverty alive or not for long. haven't heard of the one u say tho. we can see by looking at the distance btw eyes and eyebrows. If it's far apart then your family bonding is close, whereas a narrow distance means early independent and weaker fam bonding. u can also check on ur palm lines, a line starts btw your thumb and index fing and then slit into 2. longer then 1 finger wide, means u move out from parents place late

[@nkaujci]

Dude you sound like Jet Li when you speak Chinese, like when Jet Li's puts on that kick ass personal and says something in Chinese.