The Authentic Orthography
Philosopher, Human Nature · Master Meng
Why mèngzǐ.com is the correct form
孟子
The name in its original Chinese characters form. 孟子 carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
MENCIUS
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.
Mèngzǐ
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
mèngzǐ.com → xn--mngz-5oa90l.com
The non-ASCII characters in Mèngzǐ are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Mèngzǐ.
How mencius becomes Mèngzǐ
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | m | → | M | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | e | → | è | Stress | Stress on e |
| 03 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
| 04 | c | → | g | Special | Special character |
| 05 | i | → | z | Special | Special character |
| 06 | u | → | ǐ | Special | Special character |
| 07 | s | → | Drop | Dropped |
Why Mèngzǐ is classified as Tier-2 Accent-Preserving
The Ancient original 孟子 contains only stress (acute accent). 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 Mèngzǐ behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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