The Authentic Orthography
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Why sarutahiko.com is the correct form
猿田彦
The name in its original Japanese characters form. 猿田彦 carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
SARUTAHIKO
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.
Sarutahiko
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
sarutahiko.com → sarutahiko.com
The non-ASCII characters in Sarutahiko are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Sarutahiko.
How sarutahiko becomes Sarutahiko
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | s | → | S | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 03 | r | → | r | Same | Same |
| 04 | u | → | u | Same | Same |
| 05 | t | → | t | Same | Same |
| 06 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 07 | h | → | h | Same | Same |
| 08 | i | → | i | Same | Same |
| 09 | k | → | k | Same | Same |
| 10 | o | → | o | Same | Same |
Why Sarutahiko is classified as Tier-2 Basic
The Japanese form 猿田彦 preserves neither stress nor length in this Unicode restoration. This makes it a single-tier Tier-2 Basic name — still a scholarly step above plain ASCII, but without the distinctive phonetic features that define higher tiers.
See how Sarutahiko behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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