Template:Hiero/doc

Template:Tl there are a number of subpages in this template space that are used for writing Egyptian hieroglyphs in Wikipedia articles. The codes for the <hiero> tags may be found at Help:WikiHiero syntax.

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Egypt/Templates for further details.

Parameters

1

name of hieroglyph

2

hieroglyph (<hiero> ... </hiero> expected)

|align=left / right / center

Position the whole hieroglyph box

|style=

Specify a custom style for the box

|era=

|BC=BC / BCE

|gardiner=

The identifier by Gardiner's sign list code (roughly, A–Z + number: A20, Z12)

|unicode=

The Unicode codepoint for this hieroglyph (format: looks like U+13008)

Template family

The most useful templates are:

Template	Bare-bones preview	Use
Template:Hiero	Template:Trim {{{name}}} in hieroglyphs Template:Hiero/era | Era: Template:Hiero/era	A general-purpose template for displaying hieroglyphs.
Template:Hiero/2cartouche	Template:Trim {{{name}}} in hieroglyphs Template:Hiero/era | Era: Template:Hiero/era	A template for royal names requiring two cartouches: for praenomen and nomen.
Template:Hiero/1cartouche	Template:Trim {{{name}}} in hieroglyphs Template:Hiero/era | Era: Template:Hiero/era	A template for a cartouche name, where only one is known.
Template:Hiero/serekh	Template:Trim {{{name}}} in hieroglyphs Template:Hiero/era | Era: Template:Hiero/era	A template for a Horus-name displayed in a serekh.
Template:Hiero/3name	Template:Trim {{{name}}} in hieroglyphs Template:Hiero/era | Era: Template:Hiero/era	A template for a Horus name, praenomen and nomen.
Template:Hiero/5Fold	Template:Trim {{{name}}} in hieroglyphs Template:Hiero/era | Era: Template:Hiero/era	A template for the Fivefold Titulary.

Template Data

No description.

Template parameters

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
1	1 name	no description	Unknown	required
2	2 image	<hiero> ... <hiero> expected	Unknown	required
align	align	no description	Unknown	optional
era	era	no description	Unknown	suggested
BC	BC	BC or BCE Default BC	Unknown	optional
style	style	no description	Unknown	optional
unicode	unicode	no description	Unknown	optional
gardiner	gardiner	no description	Unknown	optional

Usage

Template:Hiero - 921 tc's in 799 Articles (March 2021, Template:Template parameter usage)

Template:Hiero/2cartouche [1] - 0

Template:Hiero/1cartouche [2] - 7

Template:Hiero/serekh [3] - 0

Template:Hiero/3name [4] - 0

Template:Hiero/5Fold [5] - 1

See also

• Template:Tl
• Template:Tl