Abstract: This study investigated 86 physical traits of 322 adult Minnan Han males in Fujian Province (149 urban males and 173 rural males) and 357 adult Minnan Han females (164 urban females and 193 rural females), calculated 24 physique indices, and compared this sample with data of China’s ethnic groups.The following results were determined. Male and female Minnan Han had a high percentage of upper eyelid eyefold and a low percentage of Mongoloid fold. Most of the opening heights of eyeslits were narrow with the external angle higher than the internal angle. Most nasal root height was of middle size and with a straight nasal profile. Most zygomatic projections were small. The nasal base was level in males but upturned in females. The alaenasi were medium sized with mostly oblique maximal diameter of nostrils and a wide breadth of the alaenasi. Lobe types were round in males and triangular in females. The upper lip skin height was medium with a higher degree of thin and middle-sized thickness of lips in males and the highest degree of thin size thickness of lips in females. Hair color was black, skin color yellow, and eye color brown.Index values of human facial types of the Minnan Han is between the North Asian and South Asian ethnic gros. Judging from index values, both male and female of Minnan Han are brachycephaly, hypsicephalic type, leptoprosopy, and leptorrhiny. Urban females are of aerocephalic type, while urban and rural males, and rural females are metriocephalic. The index value of human facial types of Minnan Han is closer to South Asian ethnic group. From body index values and indices,the Minnan Han is closer to North Asian group. Males were closer to the North Asias group, while females were closer to the South Asian group.

Key words: Somatoscopy; Anthropometry; Minnan; Han