Why kôṯaru.com is the correct form
𐤊𐤕𐤓
The name in its original Phoenician form. 𐤊𐤕𐤓 → Kôṯaru. Phoenician k-t-r, 'skilled one' · The circumflex over ô marks a long vowel resulting from contraction · Ugaritic Kothar-wa-Ḫasīs, the craftsman god
KOTHAR
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.
Kôṯaru
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
kôṯaru.com → xn--karu-vqa6936b.com
The non-ASCII characters in Kôṯaru are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Kôṯaru.
How kothar becomes Kôṯaru
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | k | → | K | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | o | → | ô | Stress | Stress on o |
| 03 | t | → | ṯ | Special | Special character |
| 04 | h | → | a | Special | Special character |
| 05 | a | → | r | Special | Special character |
| 06 | r | → | u | Special | Special character |
Why Kôṯaru is classified as Tier-1 Accent-Preserving
The Ancient name 𐤊𐤕𐤓 is represented by its most canonical scholarly spelling. For non-Greek names, Tier-1 status reflects the definitive attested restoration rather than Greek-style stress/length features. This is the authoritative Unicode form — a single-tier Tier-1 name.
See how Kôṯaru behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
kothar
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Kôṯaru