Scholarly Name Reference
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Scholarly reference for Dangun
단군 (檀君)
The name in its original Hangul + Hanja form. 단군 (檀君) → Dangun. Hangul 단군 with Hanja 檀君 — the founder's name as recorded in the Samguk Yusa
DANGUN
This name is already attested in the Latin alphabet. The Unicode form Dangun is identical to ASCII apart from capitalization, so no diacritic, stress, or script information was erased.
Dangun
Because the name is already in Latin letters, the Unicode restoration does not add diacritics or change the script. Its value here is canonical spelling and consistent cataloguing, not the recovery of lost marks.
dangun.com → dangun.com
Because Dangun uses only ASCII characters, no Punycode encoding is required. The browser displays the name as-is. This domain is currently registered by another party.
How dangun becomes Dangun
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | d | → | D | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 03 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
| 04 | g | → | g | Same | Same |
| 05 | u | → | u | Same | Same |
| 06 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
Why Dangun is classified as Tier-2
The Korean name 단군 (檀君) is attested in its original script (shown above) as well as in the Latin alphabet. The Unicode restoration is identical to ASCII, so no diacritic or script recovery is needed. It is catalogued as a single-tier Tier-2 name because the scholarly form carries no stress or length marks.
See how Dangun behaves in the PUNICODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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