Techan (MH651r)

This black-line drawing of the compound glyph for the personal name Techan ("Stone Home," 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 may provide a phonetic indicator for the start of the name, Te-, if it is meant as the indefinite object ("someone's"). If it is meant to say "stone home," then it is logographic. 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.