Scholarly Name Reference
also written Astartu
She of the womb
Scholarly reference for Aštartu
𐤀𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤕
The name in its original Phoenician form. 𐤀𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤕 → Aštartu. Phoenician ʾ-š-t-r-t, 'she of the womb' · The planet Venus as goddess; cognate with Mesopotamian Ištar · Final -u marks the older nominative case ending
ASTARTU
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.
Aštartu
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
aštartu.com → xn--atartu-bkb.com
The non-ASCII characters in Aštartu are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Aštartu. PUNICODEX does not claim this domain is available; always verify status with a registrar.
How astartu becomes Aštartu
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | a | → | A | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | s | → | š | Special | Special character |
| 03 | t | → | t | Same | Same |
| 04 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 05 | r | → | r | Same | Same |
| 06 | t | → | t | Same | Same |
| 07 | u | → | u | Same | Same |
Why Aštartu is classified as Tier-1
The Phoenician restoration 𐤀𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤕 preserves at least one distinctive feature its ASCII form loses — a diacritic or a distinctive letter that marks the original phonology. This makes it a single-tier Tier-1 name.
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