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CATHAY'

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Cathay' China, or rather Tartary, the capital of which was Albracca, according to Orlando Furioso. It was called Khita'i by the Tartars, and China was first entered by Europeans in the Middle Ages from the side of Tartary.
"Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of
Cathay." Tennyson: Locksley Hall. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: CATHAY'

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "'-a-a-c-h-t-y"

-2 letters: yacht.

-3 letters: achy, acta, ayah, chat, chay, tach.

-4 letters: aah, act, aha, cat, cay, hat, hay, thy, yah.

-5 letters: aa, ah, at, ay, ha, ta, ya.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: CATHAY'


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 41 54 48 41 59 27

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01000001 01010100 01001000 01000001 01011001 00100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#65 &#84 &#72 &#65 &#89 &#39

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0041 0054 0048 0041 0059 0027

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3735544235599

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