Also called: Fu yao wen · Father-and-yao pattern · Scholar's mark · 學堂紋

Where on the hand: In the Gen palace (Mount of Venus), the Zhen palace (Lower Mars), the Kan palace (base of the palm), on the Human line (head line) itself, or in the central Ming Tang.

What it looks like: A small figure resembling the Chinese characters 父 or 爻 — either two short strokes above a downward V, or two stacked X-shapes, drawn cleanly and standing on its own.

The mark of the 'hall of learning': scholarship, examination success, and help from senior people. Chinese sources read it as coming first in examinations when it appears in the palaces of family and roots, and as strong patronage and popularity elsewhere.

Read with care: Corrections: the Kan-palace form is 坎魚紋 = 貴人助力，一身富貴無比 (patrons and wealth), not 'inherited intelligence'; on the Human line it is 飛魚紋 = 人緣極佳 (popularity), not 'a mind formed for scholarship'. The alt name 學堂紋 is invented — 學堂 occurs in the source only inside the meaning (主學堂智慧), never as a name. PROVENANCE. This term is genuine and circulating in Chinese palmistry, but it could not be traced past two modern Chinese listicles ('六種富貴紋' and '九大掌紋') that propagate across content sites. No classical attestation was found. Direct access to 神相全編 and 古今圖書集成 was blocked, so this is 'not established' rather than 'not classical'.