The Authentic Orthography
Moon, Night, Soma · Moon, shining
Why candra.com is the correct form
Candra
The name in its original Sanskrit form. The original script is preserved in scholarly transliteration systems.
CHANDRA
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.
Candra
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
candra.com → candra.com
The non-ASCII characters in Candra are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Candra.
How chandra becomes Candra
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | c | → | C | Same | Same |
| 02 | h | → | Drop | Not written | |
| 03 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 04 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
| 05 | d | → | d | Same | Same |
| 06 | r | → | r | Same | Same |
| 07 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
Why Candra is classified as Tier-2 Basic
The Sanskrit original Candra contains only no distinctive phonetic features. 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 Candra behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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