CMGG entry for chok      (This article is part of the Learner's Maya Glyph Guide and Concordance.)

Translation: scatter
Part of speech: Verb

Logogram spellings of chok

                                                                             

K&H.p81.#4                K&L.p35.#5.1-8                                                                                     TOK.p19.r2.c2               BMM9.p16.r1.c2           

CHOK                           CHOK                                                                                                       CHOK                              CH’OK à CHOK

 

·     BMM9 has a typo glossing this as CH’OK.

·     Features:

o Left hand viewed from the back of the hand.

o Hand slightly open with fingers pointing down and slightly to the left.

o Multiple dots – representing incense(?) – falling from the palm and fingers.

o Partitive disk at the top right corner.

·     K&L.p35.#5.8 is an interesting variant where the hand opens upwards, as in CH’AM.

·     Do not confuse this with the phonetically similar ch’ok = “youth”.

·     Do not confuse this with the visually similar TAY (a logogram of unknown meaning). Although they share the common features of a hand and droplets:

o CHOK generally has the fingers pointing downwards while TAY has them pointing to the left.

o The droplets in CHOK are often not touching, whereas the droplets of TAY are always touching.

 

TIK 31 M2

TOK.p19.r4.c3

TAY?

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