Scholarly reference for Mòzǐ
墨子
The name in its original Chinese characters form. 墨子 carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
MOZI
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.
Mòzǐ
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
mòzǐ.com → xn--mz-2ja30g.com
The non-ASCII characters in Mòzǐ are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Mòzǐ. PUNICODEX does not claim this domain is available; always verify status with a registrar.
mwaw-tsih · /mwo˥˩.tsɿ˨˩˦/
Derived from restored orthography (Modern Standard Mandarin, pinyin tone values).
How mozi becomes Mòzǐ
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | m | → | M | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | o | → | ò | Stress | Stress on o |
| 03 | z | → | z | Same | Same |
| 04 | i | → | ǐ | Special | Special character |
Why Mòzǐ is classified as Tier-1
The Chinese restoration 墨子 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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