The meaning in the lines The basic forms of the facial tattoos were more or less the same for all of the Atayal clans--with the men being tattooed on the forehead and chin and the women being tattooed on the forehead and cheeks--but there are many small differences regarding the shapes and details of the tattoos.
文面的形式在泰雅族各亞族、群和部落間雖是大同，男子都是刺額文和頤文，女子則是刺額文與頰文。但是，彼此的小異卻是相當豐富，不同的亞族、群和部落間，文面的形式和刺文的細節都有許多差異。