The Authentic Orthography
Nation-building, Marriage · Great land master
Why ōkuninushi.com is the correct form
大国主
The name in its original Japanese characters form. 大国主 carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
OKUNINUSHI
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.
Ōkuninushi
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
ōkuninushi.com → xn--kuninushi-uxb.com
The non-ASCII characters in Ōkuninushi are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Ōkuninushi.
How okuninushi becomes Ōkuninushi
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | o | → | Ō | Length | Long vowel |
| 02 | k | → | k | Same | Same |
| 03 | u | → | u | Same | Same |
| 04 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
| 05 | i | → | i | Same | Same |
| 06 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
| 07 | u | → | u | Same | Same |
| 08 | s | → | s | Same | Same |
| 09 | h | → | h | Same | Same |
| 10 | i | → | i | Same | Same |
Why Ōkuninushi is classified as Tier-1 Macron-Preserving
The Japanese name 大国主 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 Ōkuninushi behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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