Mian xiang · 面相
Miàn xiàng (面相) literally means “face appearance”. It is the Chinese tradition of reading the face as a map, recorded in manuals such as the Ma Yi Shen Xiang (麻衣神相). ChineseFace lets you see that map on your own photo, explained as cultural heritage.
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Eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth and ears, each given an “officer” title by the tradition.
Hairline to brow, brow to nose, nose to chin — linked to Heaven, Humanity and Earth.
Named areas such as the Life Palace (命宫) between the brows and the Career Palace (官禄宫) on the forehead.
Read the chart and glossary.
See where each area sits on your face.
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Privacy & trust
Your original photo is used once to describe visible features, then removed from storage.
We never recognise who you are, compare you with other people, or keep a face template.
Every reading has a delete button that removes it from our database.
You confirm you are 18+ and the photo is of you before anything is processed.
An AI model only checks the photo and picks appearance words from a fixed list. It never writes meanings.
No personality, health, fate, emotion, age, ethnicity or identity inference — ever.
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Roughly “mee-en shee-ahng”, with a falling tone on both syllables: miàn xiàng.
They share an idea — reading the face — but mian xiang has its own map, vocabulary and links to Chinese cosmology.
No. We name them, but our entries are paraphrased from contemporary English sources and labelled that way.
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