The Authentic Orthography
War, Forests, Fishing · Upright, erect
Why kū.com is the correct form
Kū
No indigenous writing system is securely attested for individual polynesian names. The form shown is a modern scholarly transliteration.
KU
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.
Kū
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
kū.com → xn--k-qna.com
The non-ASCII characters in Kū are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Kū.
How ku becomes Kū
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | k | → | K | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | u | → | ū | Length | Long vowel |
Why Kū is classified as Tier-1 Macron-Preserving
The Polynesian name Kū 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 Kū behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
ku
→
Kū