The Authentic Orthography
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Why xiān.com is the correct form
仙
The name in its original Chinese characters form. 仙 carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
XIAN
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.
Xiān
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
xiān.com → xn--xin-2oa.com
The non-ASCII characters in Xiān are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Xiān.
How xian becomes Xiān
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | x | → | X | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | i | → | i | Same | Same |
| 03 | a | → | ā | Length | Long vowel |
| 04 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
Why Xiān is classified as Tier-2 Macron-Preserving
The Ancient original 仙 contains only length (macron vowel). This makes it a single-tier Tier-2 name. The Unicode restoration preserves what can be preserved — honoring the single feature that distinguishes it from plain ASCII.
See how Xiān behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
xian
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Xiān