·    No glyphs given in K&H, K&L.

·    Used more often as a rebus for writing ehm(i) = “to descend” (overwhelmingly so) than for the raccoon as an actual animal. The very few occurrences where it doesn’t write “to descend” are in names/titles referring to a raccoon rather than in sentences referring to actual raccoons. This applies to many other words for animals known in Classic Maya: they occur more often in names/titles than as references to the animal in real-life.

·    As with many Maya verbs of motion, there is an implicit preposition (in this case “from”):

o Zender-TRGiCMW.p8.fig4 (no explicit preposition): ehm-i chan “descends from the sky”.

o Zender-TRGiCMW.p9.c1.fig5 (with explicit preposition): ehm-i ta chan “Palenque Patron God G1 descends from the sky”.

·    Features:

o A mammal head.

o An ear in the top right corner, but not a standard mammal ear, more like a feeler with protector, somewhat resembling the inner element of yi.

o A longish nose, a row of dots forming a spine or reinforcement.