Protruding Ears

What do protuding ears mean?

I have been reading faces for years now and many people ask me about what it means to have protuding ears. If you have Protruding Ears (or you know someone) it means you are a kind person. In all my years studying faces this is a good positive ear shape. 

What is the personality of protuding ears?

In my books, classical face reading texts that I have translated describe a person with protruding ears as one who is "a free thinker, with individualistic tendencies. Instead of always following the crowd, someone with these types of ears looks outward, to the world, exploring and questioning, looking beyond their own path. But in Chinese folklore these ears are a sign of good fortune. Some believe such ears portend that their owners will break new ground, find their own paths to success and carve out an independent destiny for themselves, due perhaps to their propensity to get up early and get things done.

Many people often complain there is no amount of special hair styles or cuts or hats or glasses that really ever cover them. And, I know that can be relatively frustrating, but really it shows that you have a very strong and comfortable personality, one in which your heart is on your sleeve you treat others with kindness, you are the one who has the good times at parties and always know where to go for the good times.

A person with Protruding Ears tends to have a very kind personality. Protruding ears can be pointy or round, or even a square kind of shape, it doesn’t really matter. What really matters is that they are not in any way close to the skin of the neck. 

In chinese literature and history prominent ear is known as being a winged ear (Chinese: ), or winged (Chinese: 頰耳). The term 结耳 (jie'er), means "prominent ears that stand out from the sides of the head" in Classical Chinese dictionaries. Westerners tend to attribute protruding ears to being teased as a child, but in China, where physiognomy has developed for centuries, there's an great deal of symbolism involved.

But others see protruding ears as a sign that the person inside wears his heart on his sleeve. Such people are said to be eager to accept new ideas, always listening to opinions and information that come outside of themselves. I've had plenty of protruding-ear people email me over the years, and they seemed to listen most of the time, often with wide-open minds. However, in the chinese traditional texts there is caution that protruding ears are connected with a tendency to be too open and responsive to outside voices, sometimes at the expense of making judgements and drawing conclusions.

Is it good or bad to have protuding ears?

It's good. I have already said in my research they are kind people. They have a certain confidence and a flair for the dramatic which really brings a lot of people into their lives. They tend to have a lot of friends all over the place, so they never really spend much time alone. When they are ready for a good time, they get out there and they make it happen. This is a good lesson to learn for those who are a little bit more timid, because sometimes it just takes a little momentum to put ourselves into a new scene or to have a new and fantastic adventure. Your ears are there, there is no hiding them. Might as well use what you have and not let your ears hold you back!

On the other hand, in Chinese face reading those with Protruding ears do have a hard time settling down, which is why it is hard to really connect with them on any kind of deep or emotional level. If you need them for help during matters of an emergency, they are only all too happy to be able to be there for you and to help in any way that they can. In this they are great to depend on in stressful emergencies.