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chiuhqui.

Headword: 
chiuhqui.
Principal English Translation: 

someone in authority, someone with power (see Karttunen);

or, someone who makes something, often a suffix on a term for a certain occupation

Orthographic Variants: 
chīuhqui, -chiuhqui, -tlachiuhqui
IPAspelling: 
tʃiːwki
Frances Karttunen: 

CHĪUHQUI someone in authority, someone with power / mayor (Z), autoridad, poderoso (Z) [(5)Zp.17,82,100,152,155]. This item is abundantly attested with an incorporated object, for example CACCHĪUHQUI ‘shoemaker,’ but only in Z does it appear as a free form. See CHĪHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 53.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents chiuhqui in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

themes: 
Occupations, Responsibilities
See also: 
-chiuhqui.