Variant: bone in tooth

·    Features:

o The main part of the glyph is a “duckbill” shape – representing a “tooth” – with (optionally) reinforced or bolded left wall and ceiling (optionally the right wall as well (0197st)).

o On the left, “outside” the tooth, there’s one end of a “bone” sticking out at an angle.

·    Subvariants (3) – the middle of the glyph has:

o A. A “wood property marker”.

o B. A horizontally placed ka-comb with teeth pointing upwards? (MHD.ZY9).

o C. A partitive disc (MC).

·    Mnemonic: “Using a bone as a toothpick helps fight tooth decay”.

·    Do not confuse this with a whole set of glyphs with the “tooth” as the main outline of the glyph, but with various distinctive elements on the left:

o chu has an “axe”.

o ha has a “bone property marker”.

o k’e has one end of a “bone”.

o t’a? has a “torch” (this reading is still only a proposal).

o ye has two or more “cascades of dots”.