Scholarly Name Reference
also written Sikyon
Unknown; possibly pre-Greek
Scholarly reference for Sikyōn
Σικυών
The name in its original Greek form. Σικυών carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
SIKYON
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.
Sikyōn
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
sikyōn.com → xn--sikyn-j9a.com
The non-ASCII characters in Sikyōn are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Sikyōn. PUNICODEX does not claim this domain is available; always verify status with a registrar.
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Derived from restored orthography (classical Attic values).
How sikyon becomes Sikyōn
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | s | → | S | Same | Sigma |
| 02 | i | → | i | Same | Short iota |
| 03 | k | → | k | Same | Kappa |
| 04 | y | → | y | Same | Upsilon |
| 05 | o | → | ō | Length | Omega: long omicron |
| 06 | n | → | n | Same | Nu |
Why Sikyōn is classified as Tier-1
The Greek original Σικυών contains both stress AND at least one long vowel, and one historically dominant Unicode restoration exists. This is the full scholarly orthography — a single-tier Tier-1 name.
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