Scholarly Name Reference
Unknown; possibly pre-Greek
Scholarly reference for Sikyōn
Σικυών
The name in its original Greek form. Σικυών carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the 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. PUNYCODEX does not claim this domain is available; always verify status with a registrar.
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 preserves vowel length (macron) in its Unicode restoration. There is only one historically valid spelling with this feature preserved. This is classified as a single-tier Tier-1 Macron-Preserving name.
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