Let’s look at Paleo-Hebrew, the early Hebrew alphabet used by Israelites from about the 10th to 6th centuries BCE.
It’s a right-to-left, consonant-only script, closely related to Phoenician.
In Paleo-Hebrew, the name Kenaz is just three letters: Q-N-Z.
King is M-L-K.
Israel reads Y-S-R-’-L, and Joshua Y-H-W-SH-’.
Vowels weren’t written, and the sin/shin letter wasn’t dotted yet—context did the work.
The letter shapes began as simplified pictographs centuries earlier, but here they function as true alphabetic signs.
You can still see them on the Gezer Calendar, the Samaria ostraca, and the Siloam Tunnel inscription.
After the Babylonian exile, scribes shifted to the square Aramaic script, though Paleo-Hebrew lingered on coins and sometimes for sacred names.
So when you picture “Kenaz,” think angular strokes spelling Q-N-Z—the Paleo-Hebrew way.