Variant: leaf

·    Features – the outline of a leaf, with:

o One, two or three very slight indentations along the edge, to indicate “lobes” within a single leaf.

§ The one on the bottom is very slight – not even a tick to mark it, just a slight bend in the outline.

§ The one or two on the left are marked by (usually) very short ticks.

o Occasionally, the indentation can be quite a bit deeper either in the outline itself (e.g., 25EMC.pdfp27.#8.3, 0115bl) or by having a longer tick (e.g., JM, 25EMC.pdfp27.#8.4, 0115bl, 0115br), to indicate leaves with more distinct lobes.

o A wavy bold line inside, tapering to a point on the “outer” end, probably intended to reflect the vein structure of a leaf.

§ The degree of “veination” can vary from the very simplest – just a single wavy line (MC, K&H, etc) to more complex (TOK.p8.r3.c5, BMM9.p7.pdfp7.c4.r4.1).

·    Bonn has recognized a “full form”, with vertical symmetry and symmetrical leaves on each side (0115bh). This doesn’t seem to have a counterpart in MHD.

Variant: hand

·    Features – a boulder-outline glyph:

o A human left hand, viewed from the palm side.

o The thumb points upwards while the fingers are bent – curled into the palm:

o Cross bands In the middle of the palm.

o Optionally, a partitive disk in the bottom left.

As with a number of other hand-based glyphs, the way that the nails are visible (“from the side”) make this particular position almost impossible to achieve, anatomically speaking.

·    Complex (sub-)variant – with a vertically recangular, tripartite element on the right, slighly resembling yu:

o BMM9.p7.pdfp7.c4.r4.2 gives an example, but instead of crossed bands, there are two diagonal bands, touching.

o MHD recognizes the existence of this (sub-)variant but has crossed bands.

o There appears to be no Bonn equivalent.