Five peaks

Eastern and western peaks 東嶽泰山 西嶽華山

Where it is

The two cheekbones. Our two sources assign the sides in opposite ways, so this app does not pick one. It prints both.

What the books said

오악은 오른쪽 광대뼈·왼쪽 광대뼈·이마·턱·코를 각기 동·서·남·북·중으로 잡아 거기에 태산(泰山)·화산(華山)·형산(衡山)·항산(恒山)·숭산(嵩山)을 배치한다.

Our rendering: The encyclopedia assigns the right cheekbone to the eastern peak and the left cheekbone to the western peak.

Source: Encyclopedia of Korean Culture, entry 'Gwansang' (written by Cho Heung-yun, 1995, last revised 7 February 2023). https://encykorea.aks.ac.kr/Article/E0004873 (Checked on 2026-09-05)
面部有五岳之位,額為南岳衡山,屬離火。頦為北岳恆山,屬坎水。左顴為東嶽泰山,屬震木。右顴為西嶽華山,屬兌金。鼻為中嶽嵩山,屬中央土。

Our rendering: This book assigns the left cheekbone to the east and the right to the west. That is the opposite of the encyclopedia above.

Source: Shenxiang Quanbian, digital text at the Chinese Text Project (ctext.org). https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?if=gb&chapter=905153 (Checked on 2026-09-05)
두 광대뼈가 동서악이 되는데, 그것이 틀어지고 세력이 없어 나타나지 않으면 악독하고 인정이 없다.

Our rendering: This is what the literature said about the cheekbones.

Source: Encyclopedia of Korean Culture, entry 'Eolgul' (face), written by Cho Heung-yun, 1995. https://encykorea.aks.ac.kr/Article/E0036194 (Checked on 2026-09-05)

A place the sources record differently

Our two sources disagree about which cheekbone is the eastern peak and which is the western one. We could not establish which is right, so we print both instead of choosing.

What this app does not do

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