Scholarly Name Reference
also written Rashnu
The true one
Scholarly reference for Rašnu
𐬭𐬀𐬱𐬥𐬎
The name in its original Avestan form. 𐬭𐬀𐬱𐬥𐬎 → Rašnu. Rašnu is the yazata of justice who weighs souls. · The š is written with Avestan letter š (𐬱). · The final u is the short vowel u (𐬎).
RASHNU
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.
Rašnu
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
rašnu.com → xn--ranu-h6a.com
The non-ASCII characters in Rašnu are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Rašnu. PUNICODEX does not claim this domain is available; always verify status with a registrar.
How rashnu becomes Rašnu
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | r | → | R | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 03 | s | → | š | Special | Special character |
| 04 | h | → | Drop | Dropped | |
| 05 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
| 06 | u | → | u | Same | Same |
Why Rašnu is classified as Tier-1
The Zoroastrian restoration 𐬭𐬀𐬱𐬥𐬎 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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