Tehuic (MH563r)

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Tehuic (“Toward Someone,” "Helping Someone," or "Against Someone," attested here as a man’s name) shows a frontal view of a stone (tetl) with its curling ends and its two-tone middle (usually involving opposing colors of diagonal lines). This "te" plays a phonetic role for the indefinite pronoun, "someone." In front of the stone is an agricultural tool (huictli). The tool is vertical, and it is wider at the bottom than at the top. The bottom is also cut at an angle. The tool also provides a phonetic indicator for the preposition, huic (toward). In the end, this compound is entirely comprised of phonograms.