Also called: Rice pattern · Mi zi wen · Golden flower mark · Jin hua wen · Asterisk mark · Rice-grain character

Where on the hand: Reported in the Kun and Dui palaces (the Apollo–Mercury side and Upper Mars), the Qian palace (Luna), the Li palace (Saturn) and the Gen palace (Venus).

What it looks like: A cross with a second cross laid over it at forty-five degrees, making the eight-armed character 米 — an asterisk or star of eight short rays meeting at a point.

Called the 'golden flower', it is read as a sign of both long life and rank: honour, salary and dignity, or simply a long and well-favoured old age. Chinese sources treat it as one of the six or nine classic marks of a prosperous hand.

Read with care: Structurally this is the same figure Western palmistry calls a star, which it reads as a sudden event — brilliant on Apollo, dangerous on Saturn. Chinese practice reads the eight-armed 米 uniformly as fortunate. Correction: the palaces are reversed here. The sources give 坤兌/兌宮/乾宮 → LONGEVITY and 離宮/艮宮 → 福祿貴氣 (rank). The Qian = 'travel/ideals' reading is not in the sources. Also 米字紋 is not the same as 金花紋: the latter is a specific auspicious mark shaped like 米 in named palaces, so 'uniformly fortunate' overstates it. 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'.