Techan (MH651r)

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Techan ("A Dwelling Place," or "Someone's Home") is attested here as a man's name. A horizontal stone (tetl) with a black diagonal stripe and small circles at its ends provides a phonetic indicator for the start of the name, Te-, the indefinite human object pronoun ("Someone's"). The circles on the three visible corners of the stone are reminiscent of the shimmer given to the chalchihuitl stone or the mirror, among other shimmery objects. The tetl usually just has curly ends.The -chan part of the name is derived semantically from the small building in profile, facing toward the viewer's right. The building is implied to be a home (-chan), even though it also looks like a calli, house or generic building, with its red T-shaped beams at the entrance.