The Authentic Orthography
Confucius, Moral Teaching, Ritual · Master Kong
Unicode restoration and ASCII comparison
孔子
The name in its original Chinese form. Kǒngzǐ (孔子) is attested in the source tradition — “Master Kong”. Its original diacritics and script distinctions carry the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
kongzi
Reduced to plain kongzi, the name loses everything that made it specific: original diacritics and script distinctions. What remains is an ASCII string that machines can parse but that no longer speaks with its original voice.
Kǒngzǐ
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII flattened. Kǒngzǐ restores original diacritics and script distinctions, returning the name to its original written dignity. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
Kǒngzǐ.com → xn--kngz-enbi.com
The non-ASCII characters in Kǒngzǐ are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Kǒngzǐ.
How Kǒngzǐ is preserved in writing
A bespoke provenance study for Kǒngzǐ is being prepared by the PUNICODEX scholarly team.
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Kǒngzǐ
Restores 孔子. The full Unicode restoration. kǒngzǐ.com is not in the PuniCodex collection — it is watched for release; if it drops, this temple upgrades to an owned flagship.
kongzi
Flattens 孔子. The plain ASCII fallback — what DNS and legacy systems see.
How Kǒngzǐ was spoken
Confucius, Moral Teaching, Ritual
Kǒngzǐ belongs to the Chinese tradition, where it is associated with confucius, moral teaching, ritual.
The central domain of Kǒngzǐ in the chinese tradition.
The name signifies "Master Kong".
The restoration Kǒngzǐ recovers what plain ASCII kongzi flattens.
Attested in the sources as 孔子.
Stories of Kǒngzǐ
The stories of Kǒngzǐ circulate within the Chinese corpus, where the figure embodies confucius, moral teaching, ritual.
Kǒngzǐ is attested in the canonical Chinese sources as a figure associated with confucius, moral teaching, ritual.
The name means "Master Kong" and reflects the figure's role in the tradition.
Kǒngzǐ embodies confucius, moral teaching, ritual in the Chinese imagination. The name's restoration is not merely cosmetic: it recovers the stress, length, and script that make the figure recognizable in the source tradition.
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