The Authentic Orthography
Life Force, Energy · Breath, energy
Why qì.com is the correct form
氣
The name in its original Chinese characters form. 氣 carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
QI
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.
Qì
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
qì.com → xn--q-hga.com
The non-ASCII characters in Qì are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Qì.
How qi becomes Qì
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | q | → | Q | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | i | → | ì | Stress | Stress on i |
Why Qì is classified as Tier-2 Accent-Preserving
The Ancient original 氣 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 Qì behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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