See an image that represents choca in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
nahualpoliuhq. nauhcampa huicalloque ỹ mexica. mochoquilitiaque. = the Mexica were treacherously defeated and were taken off in all four directions; they went weeping. "This expression might refer instead to all four parts of the entity." (1608, Central Mexico)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 122–123.
choquiztli cenmantícatca, cicihua. Yhuan, Pipiltzin, ca huel huey tlaocoli yno motaya = Cho:quiztli cenmanti catca cicihua: i:hua:n pipiltzitzin, ca huel hue:i tlao:co:lli in o:motaya =The crying of the women and children was great, so there was very great mourning.
Anónimo mexicano, ed. Richley H. Crapo and Bonnie Glass-Coffin (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), 52.
choca, cenca choca, quil mixpaca, ic quichipaoa in imixtelolo = weeping, greatly weeping. It is said that in that way they wash their eyes, they cleanse their eyeballs. (Tlatelolco, 1540–80)
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 195.
miecpa cioatl cacoia chocatiuh, tzatzitiuh = many times a woman would be heard going along weeping and shouting
James Lockhart, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, Repertorium Columbianum v. 1 (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1993), 54.
auh ça no ca yn amo tenãquilia çã choca = but also there is one who does not answer; he only weeps (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 297.
New life was a cause for rejoicing, which included weeping: a ca qujchocazquja = for they would have wept over it (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 137.
Sighing and weeping could be examples of good behavior in the view of the gods and could therefore earn one favors, such as a pregnancy: cujx otonelciciuh, cuij otonchocac = perhaps thou hast sighed? Perhaps thou has wept? (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 141.
This verb was a substitute for tzilini (for bells to ring) in Nahuatl testaments from Totocuitlapilco, valley of Toluca.
Miriam Melton-Villanueva, The Aztecs at Independence: Nahua Culture Makers in Central Mexico, 1799–1832 (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2016), 78.