Xoxouhqui (MH753r)

This black-line drawing of the simplex glyph for the personal name Xoxouhqui (“Green” or “Unripe”) is attested here as a man’s name. The glyph is a simple, empty circle. This was one of the typical ways of showing a color name, using either a circle or a square. Of course, when the artist/writer was using colors, he would then fill that space with the given color. Here, given the lack of watercolors in this part of the manuscript, the circle is a tip-off that the person has a color name. Locals would know what his name was.