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What the old physiognomy books called each part of a face
When you are choosing a passport photo or looking at your own face before an interview, this page lays the old Korean and Chinese physiognomy vocabulary over it: what those books called the forehead, the brows, the eyes, the nose, the mouth and the chin, and what they wrote about each. The photo is read inside your browser and dropped there. No score, no grade, no ranking, and no screen that compares you with anyone.
What this app does not do
It gives no score, sets no grade, builds no ranking, and never compares you with another person, a celebrity or an animal. It does not settle anything about your fortune, your work, your money, your health or your lifespan. It quotes what the books said, and it does not apply those words to you.
Find the places on your own face
Choose one photo and the browser finds the points on the face, then draws where each named place sits. The photo never leaves the page.
Open the readerDictionary of places
The three sections, the five peaks and the twelve palaces, nineteen entries. Readable without any photo.
Open the dictionaryBooks and sources
Which books this app quotes, where and when we checked them, and what we could not obtain.
See the sourcesA guide to reading faces
What physiognomy is, how the books divide a face into sections, peaks and palaces, and how far this app goes.
A guide to reading facesThree sections 三停
Five peaks 五嶽
Twelve palaces 十二宮
The photo ends on this device
The photo you choose is read inside the browser and dropped there. It is not sent to a server and it is not stored. There is no account. Reading a face image starts only after you switch it on, and the only thing kept in this browser is that switch.