The Authentic Orthography
Immortal, Fan · Zhongli Quan
Why zhōnglíquán.com is the correct form
鐘離權
The name in its original Chinese characters form. 鐘離權 carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
ZHONGLIQUAN
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.
ZhōnglíQuán
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
zhōnglíquán.com → xn--zhnglqun-fza1js1c.com
The non-ASCII characters in ZhōnglíQuán are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is ZhōnglíQuán.
How zhongliquan becomes ZhōnglíQuán
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | z | → | Z | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | h | → | h | Same | Same |
| 03 | o | → | ō | Length | Long vowel |
| 04 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
| 05 | g | → | g | Same | Same |
| 06 | l | → | l | Same | Same |
| 07 | i | → | í | Stress | Stress on i |
| 08 | q | → | Q | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 09 | u | → | u | Same | Same |
| 10 | a | → | á | Stress | Stress on a |
| 11 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
Why ZhōnglíQuán is classified as Tier-2 Accent-Preserving
The Ancient original 鐘離權 contains only stress (acute accent). 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 ZhōnglíQuán behaves in the PUNYCODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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