·     No glyphs given in K&H, K&L, TOK, 25EMC. It is however given in BMM9, and by MHD and Bonn. This suggests that it’s quite a recent decipherment.

·     There seems to be two sub-variants:

o A. Scroll and two slanting bars:

§ MHD.32Ms.1&2: read as either wu or hu.

§ 1772st: read only as wu.

o B. Scroll and “comb”:

§ MHD.32Ms.3: read as either wu or hu.

§ 0104st: not given a reading.

I.e. Bonn treats the “two slanting bars” variant as being very distinct from the “comb” variant, reading the former only as wu, and giving no reading to the latter while MHD treats both variants as more or less equivalent, and gives a reading of either wu or hu to them, i.e. Bonn is more restrictive in its reading than MHD.

·     An element which resembles this can be seen at the bottom of a CHAN-like glyph in LAC Panel 1 A3b and in PAL Temple 19 Platform Passage S-1 B1.

o It is not a rotated form of wu/hu. Because it consists of a protected scroll on the left, with two slanting bars on the right: if it were a rotated form of wu/hu, then the scroll would be on the right.

o It is not wu/hu (unrotated) attached to the bottom of the main sign rather than to the top because it has an anticlockwise scroll: the element below the “CHAN” has a clockwise scroll.

In that context, it isn’t CHAN:wu or CHAN:hu, but is instead a logogram in itself – a variant of PIK. This is further confirmed by the fact that:

o In the LAC and PAL examples, it occurs in the glyph-block immediately after the ISIG, where logogram PIK is expected, with a numerical coefficient.

o MHD has assigned it its own 3-character code, as a logogram: ZHA = PIK.