The Authentic Orthography
Cosmology, Divination · Eight trigrams
Why bāguà.com is the correct form
八卦
The name in its original Chinese characters form. 八卦 carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
BAGUA
Stripped of its identity, the name was reduced to plain Latin letters. The original orthography — stress, length, breathing — was erased by systems that only understand A-Z.
Bāguà
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
bāguà.com → xn--bgu-cla6n.com
The non-ASCII characters in Bāguà are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Bāguà.
How bagua becomes Bāguà
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | b | → | B | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | a | → | ā | Length | Long vowel |
| 03 | g | → | g | Same | Same |
| 04 | u | → | u | Same | Same |
| 05 | a | → | à | Stress | Stress on a |
Why Bāguà is classified as Tier-2 Accent-Preserving
The Ancient original 八卦 contains only stress (acute accent). This makes it a single-tier Tier-2 name. The Unicode restoration preserves what can be preserved — honoring the single feature that distinguishes it from plain ASCII.
See how Bāguà behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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