Template:Hiero/doc

{{Hiero/doc}} 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

text for hieroglyph

unicode

unicode representation of the hieroglyph

style

Specify a custom style for the box

era

Various minor templates are used to select colour themes for periods of Egyptian history. They are called by the | era = parameter.

Period	| era =	Background colour	Border colour
Default	empty or default	silver	blue
Protodynastic Period of Egypt	pd	plum	red
Early Dynastic Period of Egypt	ed	skyblue	steelblue
Old Kingdom of Egypt	ok	sandybrown	indianred
First Intermediate Period of Egypt	1ip	crimson	gold
Middle Kingdom of Egypt	mk	gold	black
Second Intermediate Period of Egypt	2ip	red	palegoldenrod
New Kingdom of Egypt	nk	palegoldenrod	crimson
Third Intermediate Period of Egypt	3ip	lightcoral	red
Late Period of Egypt	lp	palegreen	red
Ptolemaic dynasty	pt	aquamarine	black
Egypt extra	egypt	navajowhite	peru

Template family

The most useful templates are:

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