The Authentic Orthography
Zen Patriarch, Wall-Gazer · Dharma of awakening
Why bodhidharma.com is the correct form
菩提達磨
The name in its original Chinese characters form. 菩提達磨 carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
BODHIDHARMA
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.
Bodhidharma
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
bodhidharma.com → bodhidharma.com
The non-ASCII characters in Bodhidharma are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Bodhidharma.
How bodhidharma becomes Bodhidharma
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | b | → | B | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | o | → | o | Same | Same |
| 03 | d | → | d | Same | Same |
| 04 | h | → | h | Same | Same |
| 05 | i | → | i | Same | Same |
| 06 | d | → | d | Same | Same |
| 07 | h | → | h | Same | Same |
| 08 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 09 | r | → | r | Same | Same |
| 10 | m | → | m | Same | Same |
| 11 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
Why Bodhidharma is classified as Tier-2 Basic
The Ancient form 菩提達磨 preserves neither stress nor length in this Unicode restoration. This makes it a single-tier Tier-2 Basic name — still a scholarly step above plain ASCII, but without the distinctive phonetic features that define higher tiers.
See how Bodhidharma behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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