The Authentic Orthography
Beauty, Love, Flowers · Flower feather
Why xōchiquetzal.com is the correct form
Xōchiquetzal
The name in its original Nahuatl form. The original script is preserved in scholarly transliteration systems.
XOCHIQUETZAL
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.
Xōchiquetzal
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
xōchiquetzal.com → xn--xchiquetzal-l9b.com
The non-ASCII characters in Xōchiquetzal are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Xōchiquetzal.
How xochiquetzal becomes Xōchiquetzal
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | x | → | X | Same | Same |
| 02 | o | → | ō | Length | Macron: long vowel |
| 03 | c | → | c | Same | Same |
| 04 | h | → | h | Same | Same |
| 05 | i | → | i | Same | Same |
| 06 | q | → | q | Same | Same |
| 07 | u | → | u | Same | Same |
| 08 | e | → | e | Same | Same |
| 09 | t | → | t | Same | Same |
| 10 | z | → | z | Same | Same |
| 11 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 12 | l | → | l | Same | Same |
Why Xōchiquetzal is classified as Tier-1 Macron-Preserving
The Nahuatl original Xōchiquetzal 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 Xōchiquetzal behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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