The Authentic Orthography
War, Standing, Stability · Stand, erect (from Proto-Polynesian *tuu)
Why tū.com is the correct form
Tū
The name in its original Polynesian form. The original script is preserved in scholarly transliteration systems.
TU
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.
Tū
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
tū.com → xn--t-qna.com
The non-ASCII characters in Tū are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Tū.
How tu becomes Tū
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | t | → | T | Same | Same |
| 02 | u | → | ū | Length | Macron: long /uː/ |
Why Tū is classified as Tier-1 Macron-Preserving
The Polynesian original Tū 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 Tū behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
tu
→
Tū