[This article is part of the Learner's Maya Glyph Guide.]
CMGG entry for syllabogram pu

Variant: boulder

                                                                            

MC                                      K&H                                  JM                                TOK.p12.r4.c1                      0692st

 

                              `                

T692                          T854                                    MHD.XH9s.1&2&3                                                    MHD.XH9a

-                                  -                                           pu                                                                                 TAP

 

·    In many respects this resembles an upside-down CHAN = “sky”.

·    The subtle aspects where it differs are:

o The (upside-down) U in pu is not lipped, and is more or less just a standard (bold) U (though one might argue that MC and K&H examples actually do have a lipped-U, with bolding of one part).

o The U has a dotted spine.(never present in CHAN = “sky”).

§ In some examples (T692, MHD.XH9s.1&2, MHD.XH9s), the dots are not just a dotted spine inside some bolding, but in fact even become the top of the outline of the glyph itself (and there is no more “upside-down” U).

§ In T854, the dotted spine is replaced by alternating ticks and tiny dots.

o The two “pillars” tend to be curved (whereas they tend to be straight or can be at an angle or have crossed bands in between) in CHAN = “sky”.

·    MHD also gives a logogram reading for this glyph of TAP.