Scholarly reference for Tarḫunash
Tarḫunash
The original script for this hittite name has not yet been added to PUNICODEX. The form shown is a scholarly transliteration.
TARHUNASH
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.
Tarḫunash
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
tarḫunash.com → xn--tarunash-d29c.com
The non-ASCII characters in Tarḫunash are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Tarḫunash. PUNICODEX does not claim this domain is available; always verify status with a registrar.
How tarhunash becomes Tarḫunash
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | t | → | T | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 03 | r | → | r | Same | Same |
| 04 | h | → | ḫ | Special | Special character |
| 05 | u | → | u | Same | Same |
| 06 | n | → | n | Same | Same |
| 07 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 08 | s | → | s | Same | Same |
| 09 | h | → | h | Same | Same |
Why Tarḫunash is classified as Tier-2 Basic
The Ancient form Tarḫunash preserves neither stress nor length in this Unicode restoration. This makes it a single-tier Tier-2 Basic name — still a scholarly step above plain ASCII, but without the distinctive phonetic features that define higher tiers.
See how Tarḫunash behaves in the PUNICODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.
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