The Authentic Orthography

Κηφεύς Kēpheus

King, Constellation, Father of Andromeda · Gardener

Tier-1 Macron-Preserving kēpheus.com
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The Authentic Name

Why kēpheus.com is the correct form

Greek Original

Κηφεύς

The name in its original Greek form. A name that carries the full phonetic weight of its source tradition.

ASCII Constraint

CEPHEUS

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.

Unicode Restoration

Kēpheus

The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.

Punycode Encoding
kēpheus.com → xn--kpheus-p3a.com

The non-ASCII characters in Kēpheus are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Kēpheus.

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Character Breakdown

How cepheus becomes Kēpheus

Step ASCII Unicode Type Scholarly Note
01 c → K Same Kappa
02 e → ē Length Macron: long eta
03 p → p Same Same
04 h → h Same Same
05 e → e Same Same
06 u → u Same Same
07 s → s Same Same
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Tier Classification

Why Kēpheus is classified as Tier-1 Macron-Preserving

The Greek original Κηφεύς contains both stress AND at least one long vowel. However, there is only one historically valid Unicode restoration. The ASCII fallback is modern English, not ancient canonical. This is the full scholarly orthography — a single-tier Tier-1 name.

Stress
—
Not present in this restoration.
Length
Preserved
Macron (ō, ē, ā) marks long vowels from the original.
Dual Variant
—
Only one valid Unicode restoration exists for this name.

Experience the Name

See how Kēpheus behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.

cepheus → Kēpheus
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