CMGG entry for k'in      (This article is part of the Learner's Maya Glyph Guide.)

Translation: day; sun;  calendar unit k’in, 1st (lowest) position in the LC = 1 day
Part of speech: Noun

Logogram spellings of k'in

A black and white drawing of a chair  Description automatically generated                 A black and white drawing of a square  Description automatically generated                                                        A black and white drawing of a spiral  Description automatically generated                     

K&H.p84.#5                     TOK.p11.r5.c4             BMM9.p12.r2.c4                      JM.p151.#3                        JM.p153.#1                     MC.p164.r4.c3

K’IN:ni                               K’IN                               K’IN                                             K’IN                                     K’IN:ni                              K’IN

 

K&L.p11.#1

K’IN

 

                                                                     

K&H.p55.#5.2               K&L.p64.#1                                                                                 TOK.p11.r5.c4           BMM9.p12.r2.c4              25EMC.pdfp40.#3.1&2

K’IN                                 K’IN / K’IN:ni                                                                               K’IN                            K’IN                                     K’IN

 

                                        

IC.p16.pdfp20.#1.1&2                         MHD.XQ3.1&2&3                                                             0544ex

K’IN                                                         K’IN                                                                                      K’IN

 

                                                                                

K&H.p55.#5.1             K&L.p64.#2.1-9                                                                                TOK.p25.r1.c2               BMM9.p14.r6.c3               25EMC.pdfp40.#3.3&4

K’IN                               K’IN / K’IN:ni                                                                                    K’IN / 4                           K’IN                                      K’IN

 

                                                                                                                                                                             

IC.p16.pdfp20.#1.3               [IC.p16.pdfp20.#1.4 = 25EMC.pdfp40.#3.3]                0544st                            JM.p152.#1                           Montgomery = Coll-1                 

                                                                                                                                                                                      YAX HS2 Step 7 O1               .      

K’IN                                                                                                                                       K’IN                                 K’IN                                         9.K’IN

 

               

K&L.p64.#2.10                 

K’IN                                    

 

                                                                                           

K&L.p64.#2.11 =  IC.p16.pdfp20.#1.6               IC.p16.pdfp20.#1.5               

YAX Lintel 48 D3-D4                                             PAL PT B11-B12                     

K’IN                                                                          K’IN                                         

 

·    Variants (4):

o A. Stylized:

§ Boulder or circular outline (optionally bold, or optionally a symmetric cave).

§ If outline is not bold or cave, then optionally within it, a circle (optionally bold).

§ Defining characteristic: 4 “<”-ticks (suitably rotated), at the N, S, E, W points of the circle.

§ Optionally, a dot in the centre.

§ Optionally, 4 smaller dots, one in the centre of each of the 4 petals formed by the “<”-elements.

o B. God head (the Sun God “K’inich”):

§ It sometimes has one (very occasionally two) K’IN-elements infixed, they being the stylized variant, either on the forehead or the back of the head.

§ Large, very distinctly square eye.

§ Large nose.

§ Optional mouth tendril and T-tooth.

§ The ni as phonetic complement can help distinguish it from other god heads.

o C. Animal head (resembling a snake?): an unusual variant (perhaps just a one-off).

o D. Full-figure:

§ A monkey or an anthropomorphic figure (Sun God?).

§ So far, I’ve only seen them in PAL PT and YAX Lintel 48.

·    The god-head and full-figure variants are used generally in an LC, while the abstract variant is used in “normal sentences”.