Scholarly reference for Fudō
不動明王
The name in its original Japanese characters form. 不動明王 carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
FUDO
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.
Fudō
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
fudō.com → xn--fud-sxa.com
The non-ASCII characters in Fudō are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Fudō. PUNICODEX does not claim this domain is available; always verify status with a registrar.
foo-doh · /ɸu.doː/
Derived from restored orthography (standard Japanese).
How fudo becomes Fudō
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | f | → | F | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | u | → | u | Same | Same |
| 03 | d | → | d | Same | Same |
| 04 | o | → | ō | Length | Long vowel |
Why Fudō is classified as Tier-1
The Japanese restoration 不動明王 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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