It bears mentioning that Yuktepat has a number of klût slwang ‘double glyphs.’ These characters consist of one part that is repeated (and sometimes reversed) when the glyph stands alone. A particularly large number of them seem to occur among glyphs representing plants and fungi, but they are found elsewhere too. When glyphs are combined into more complex arrangements, generally only one half is used as a radical, and the other identical half is discarded or replaced. This is related to the fact that all glyphs, no matter how complex, are to be written in a square space of the same size. When there are no other radicals or phonetic complements, repeating the only element helps fill out the available space in the imaginary box.
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