·     This consists typically of four touching horseshoes, often “bloated crescents”.

·     It’s frequently conflated with ya, to write the verbal suffix -jiiy.

·     Do not confuse this with the hand variant of yi:

o ji has the internal oval on the ceiling, with a ladder or LEM in it.

o yi has the internal oval on the floor, with a left feeler in it (the oval forms the protector of the feeler).

Sub-variants (2)

·     A. The “infixed” element in the top left is a LEM.

·     B. The “infixed” element in the top left is a “ladder”.

·     Characteristic of this variant is a mammal head (with mammal ear)

·     Infixed AK’AB (darkness property marker) implying a dark-coloured mammal or a nocturnal one. [Sim: think of it as a rat.]

·     Note that in MSK844 (a.k.a. CLK Tomb 4 Plate) E, the distinctive characteristic of the hand variant is visible in the bottom right.

Sub-variants (2)

·     A. With teeth (typically three or four): seems to go parallel with a single AK’AB and a mammal ear.

·     B. No teeth: seems to go parallel with two AK’ABs and no mammal ear.

But this pattern may be an illusion caused by the small sample size.