Also called: The short-fingered hand

Where on the hand: The four fingers taken together, markedly shorter than the height of the palm.

What it looks like: Stubby fingers on a comparatively large palm; the hand looks palm-heavy.

Short fingers give speed, impulse, impatience and a grasp of the whole rather than the parts. Quick-thinking, outspoken and blunt. Indian sources add a priority on personal gain and profit, a preference for commercial or business education, and a small, selective circle of friends.

Western reading: Cheiro is harsh on the short-and-thick combination specifically, not on shortness alone.

Read with care: Cheiro's "animal nature… devoid of real intellectuality" is period-bound moralising about hand shape and should be presented as historical doctrine, not as an assessment of anyone.

an animal nature, possessing coarse instincts, devoid of real intellectualityCheiro, Palmistry for All (1916)

They do not like to be bothered about details, they want to form an overall opinion first.traditional