Scholarly Name Reference
also written Budai
'Cloth sack' (bù 'cloth' + dài 'sack'), the laughing, sack-carrying monk of the Chinese Buddhist tradition, identified as an incarnation of Maitreya.
Scholarly reference for Bùdài
布袋
The name in its original Chinese characters form. 布袋 carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.
BUDAI
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.
Bùdài
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
bùdài.com → xn--bdi-bla7j.com
The non-ASCII characters in Bùdài are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Bùdài. PUNICODEX does not claim this domain is available; always verify status with a registrar.
poo-teye · /pu˥˩.tai̯˥˩/
Derived from restored orthography (Modern Standard Mandarin, pinyin tone values).
How budai becomes Bùdài
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | b | → | B | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | u | → | ù | Stress | Stress on u: grave, falling tone |
| 03 | d | → | d | Same | Same |
| 04 | a | → | à | Stress | Stress on a: grave, falling tone |
| 05 | i | → | i | Same | Same |
Why Bùdài is classified as Tier-1
The Chinese restoration 布袋 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 Bùdài behaves in the PUNICODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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