·    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 ye:

o CHOK has dots cascading down between the fingers and thumb, from the palm; and the fingers are not curled in (in particular, the index finger isn’t).

o ye does not have dots cascading down between the fingers and thumb, from the palm; and the fingers are curled in (or at least the index finger is).

·    Do not confuse this with the visually (slightly) 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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·    There are 29 instances of cho-ko spelling various forms of chok in MHD (2025-12-16). Surprisingly(?) quite a number of them are names/titles.

o The 3 BPK examples given all spell the name Aj Bahlam Chok, a ruler of BPK.

o There are 7 instances of Uchokow Wata’ab, a ruler of CHN.

o There are 3 other instances of individual names/titles.

o There are 5 instances of u-cho-ko-wa è uchokow = “he scattered it”, functioning as a verb.