Scholarly Name Reference
also written Sanzang
Three baskets
Scholarly reference for Sānzàng
三藏
The name in its original Chinese characters form. 三藏 carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
SANZANG
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.
Sānzàng
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
sānzàng.com → xn--snzng-tqa2u.com
The non-ASCII characters in Sānzàng are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Sānzàng. PUNICODEX does not claim this domain is available; always verify status with a registrar.
sahn-tsahng · /sa˥n.tsa˥˩ŋ/
Derived from restored orthography (Modern Standard Mandarin, pinyin tone values).
How sanzang becomes Sānzàng
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | s | → | S | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | a | → | ā | Length | Long vowel |
| 03 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
| 04 | z | → | z | Same | Same |
| 05 | a | → | à | Stress | Stress on a |
| 06 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
| 07 | g | → | g | Same | Same |
Why Sānzàng is classified as Tier-1
The Chinese restoration 三藏 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.
See how Sānzàng behaves in the PUNICODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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