The Authentic Orthography
Love, Freshwater, Fertility · Sweet river
Why ọṣun.com is the correct form
Ọṣun
The name in its original Yoruba form. The original script is preserved in scholarly transliteration systems.
OSHUN
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.
Ọṣun
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
ọṣun.com → xn--un-2zs1w.com
The non-ASCII characters in Ọṣun are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Ọṣun.
How oshun becomes Ọṣun
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | o | → | Ọ | Special | O with dot below |
| 02 | s | → | ṣ | Special | S with dot below |
| 03 | h | → | Drop | Not written | |
| 04 | u | → | u | Same | Same |
| 05 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
Why Ọṣun is classified as Tier-2 Basic
The Yoruba original Ọṣun contains only no distinctive phonetic features. 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 Ọṣun behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
oshun
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Ọṣun