The Authentic Orthography
Sea, Protection, Seafaring · Empress of heaven
Why tiānhòu.com is the correct form
天后
The name in its original Chinese characters form. 天后 carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
TIANHOU
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.
Tiānhòu
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
tiānhòu.com → xn--tinhu-xta6h.com
The non-ASCII characters in Tiānhòu are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Tiānhòu.
How tianhou becomes Tiānhòu
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | t | → | T | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | i | → | i | Same | Same |
| 03 | a | → | ā | Length | Long vowel |
| 04 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
| 05 | h | → | h | Same | Same |
| 06 | o | → | ò | Stress | Stress on o |
| 07 | u | → | u | Same | Same |
Why Tiānhòu is classified as Tier-1 Full
The Ancient name 天后 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 Tiānhòu behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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