Cathayとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin Cathaya, variant of Cataya, from Old Turkic ��������‎ (Khitāyn), the Khitan people who conquered northern China as the Liao dynasty in the 10th century and ruled the central Asian Qara Khitai Khanate in the 12th, just prior to the overland European missions to China occasioned by the Pax Mongolica. Cognate with Russian Кита́й (Kitáj, “China”).^[1] See "Names of China" at Wikipedia.