The Authentic Orthography
Peloponnesian City · Unknown; possibly pre-Greek
Why sikyōn.com is the correct form
Σικυών
The name in its original Greek form. A name that carries the full phonetic weight of its source tradition.
SIKYON
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.
Sikyōn
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
sikyōn.com → xn--sikyn-j9a.com
The non-ASCII characters in Sikyōn are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Sikyōn.
How sikyon becomes Sikyōn
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | s | → | S | Same | Sigma |
| 02 | i | → | i | Same | Short iota |
| 03 | k | → | k | Same | Kappa |
| 04 | y | → | y | Same | Upsilon |
| 05 | o | → | ō | Length | Omega: long omicron |
| 06 | n | → | n | Same | Nu |
Why Sikyōn is classified as Tier-1 Macron-Preserving
The Greek original Σικυών contains both stress AND at least one long vowel. However, there is only one historically valid Unicode restoration. The ASCII fallback is modern English, not ancient canonical. This is the full scholarly orthography — a single-tier Tier-1 name.
See how Sikyōn behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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