Xochiman (MH500r)

Another example of a glyph of this name, Xochiman, appears below. It does not have the hand. Gordon Whittaker has noticed that the hand is "always in upright orientation when it has the values MAitl) and ma(n)" (2021, 104). He shares compound glyphs for the place name, Oztoman, from the Codex Mendoza as examples of compounds that also use the hand to represent the verb mani. Toliman is another one (see below), but this is an exception, where the hand reaches in from the side.

A doña María Cortés Xochima(..?) appears in the Techialoyan codex called the García Granados (Arqueología mexicana, 29-34 (1998), 62.] The name Xochima is also still very common today. There are towns called Xochimanca and Xochimatlan. John Bierhort's concordance (1985, 191) to the Cantares Mexicanos mentions a line in the songs that refers to "my home that lies in flowers" (xochimani). This is the other mani, to lie or extend.