Also called: Jala Hasta · The sensitive hand

Where on the hand: Recognised from the whole hand: a rectangular, long and narrow palm carrying long fingers that taper to fine or pointed tips.

What it looks like: The most finely-wrought of the four types: soft, cool, delicate skin, and the greatest number of lines of any hand type — fine and fragile rather than deep.

The Water hand belongs to the emotionally sensitive, imaginative, receptive nature — private, empathic, with a rich inner life. Its strength is feeling; its weakness is the absence of boundaries against other people's feeling.