The Authentic Orthography
Founder of Korea, First King · Lord of the sandalwood
Why dangun.com is the correct form
Dangun
No indigenous writing system is securely attested for individual korean names. The form shown is a modern scholarly transliteration.
DANGUN
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.
Dangun
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
dangun.com → dangun.com
The non-ASCII characters in Dangun are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Dangun.
How dangun becomes Dangun
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | d | → | D | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 03 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
| 04 | g | → | g | Same | Same |
| 05 | u | → | u | Same | Same |
| 06 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
Why Dangun is classified as Tier-2 Basic
The Ancient form Dangun 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 Dangun behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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