PuniCodex

Scholarly Name Reference

須佐之男 Susanō

also written Susano

Impetuous male

Tier-1 Domain Reference
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The Authentic Name of Susanō

Scholarly reference for Susanō

Japanese characters

須佐之男

The name in its original Japanese characters form. 須佐之男 carries the full phonetic and orthographic weight of the source tradition.

ASCII Constraint

SUSANO

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.

Unicode Restoration

Susanō

The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.

Punycode Encoding
susanō.com → xn--susan-k9a.com

The non-ASCII characters in Susanō are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Susanō. PUNICODEX does not claim this domain is available; always verify status with a registrar.

Saying It
soo-sah-noh · /su.sa.noː/

Derived from restored orthography (standard Japanese).

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Character Breakdown of Susanō

How susano becomes Susanō

Step ASCII Unicode Type Scholarly Note
01 s S Same Same
02 u u Same Same
03 s s Same Same
04 a a Same Same
05 n n Same Same
06 o ō Length Macron: long vowel
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Tier Classification

Why Susanō is classified as Tier-1

The Japanese restoration 須佐之男 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.

Stress
Not present in this restoration.
Length
Preserved
Macron (ō, ē, ā) marks long vowels from the original.
Dual Variant
Only one valid Unicode restoration exists for this name.

Experience Susanō

See how Susanō behaves in the PUNICODEX Type Tool — with predictive autocomplete, character-by-character breakdown, and scholarly constraint validation.

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