CMGG entry for syllabogram cha      (This article is part of the Learner's Maya Glyph Guide.)

Variant: boulder

                

MC = K&H                          TOK.p32.r5.c2

 

                               

JM                                 JM                              TOK.p14.r1.c3

 

Sub-variants (2)

·    A. Full:

o Top: one or multiple pairs of “feelers” – shorter feelers can have protectors.

o Bottom: CHUWEN.

·    B. Reduced: bottom part of full form.

 

Notes

·    The reduced sub-variant is similar to se. The full variant of cha has “feelers”, but the full variant of se never has.

 

Variant: three eyes

                                                   

MC = K&H                  JM                            LTI - Kimbell Panel F1          MC = K&H                TOK.p10.r1.c2

 

Variant: scroll and eyeball

                              

JM.47.1                        YAX Lintel 27 H1               YAX Lintel 1 A7b

 

·    Occurs commonly as the initial phonetic complement of cha’an = “master of”.

 

Variant: hand

                         

MC                                 K&H                           TOK.p20.r2.c2

 

·    The outline of this glyph is a left fist, viewed from the back of the hand. It is one of four glyphs with this characteristic:

o cha: IK’ in the top left.

o k’a: horizontally stretched, cross-hatched, inverted-U in the top left.

o ho: 3 non-touching dots in a triangular formation, pointing downwards.

o (One variant of) Glyph-G7: with the head of a young man below and a NAAH on the left of both.

The bottom left has a 180-degrees rotated curved-L with one or two reinforcing lines to the right.

·    In the hand variant of cha, the bold-T (“IK’”, symbolic of breath or wind) also can take the form of a short, slightly curved horizontal line (tips pointing upwards), with a “u” under it, making it resemble a tooth or (in this context) an eye.