The Authentic Orthography
Supreme Ultimate, Origin · Great extreme
Why tàijí.com is the correct form
太極
The name in its original Chinese characters form. 太極 carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
TAICHI
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.
Tàijí
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
tàijí.com → xn--tij-9ka1e.com
The non-ASCII characters in Tàijí are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Tàijí.
How taichi becomes Tàijí
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | t | → | T | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | a | → | à | Stress | Stress on a |
| 03 | i | → | i | Same | Same |
| 04 | c | → | j | Special | Special character |
| 05 | h | → | í | Special | Special character |
| 06 | i | → | Drop | Dropped |
Why Tàijí is classified as Tier-1 Accent-Preserving
The Ancient name 太極 is represented by its most canonical scholarly spelling. For non-Greek names, Tier-1 status reflects the definitive attested restoration rather than Greek-style stress/length features. This is the authoritative Unicode form — a single-tier Tier-1 name.
See how Tàijí behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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