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Look up: tael

  1. tael
    [n] - a unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Tael
    Tael noun [ Malay ta...l , a certain weight, probably from Hind. tola , Sanskrit tulā a balance, weight, tul to weigh.] A denomination of money, in China, worth nearly six shillings sterling, or about a dollar and forty...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/3

  3. tael
    noun a unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  4. Tael
    • (n.) A denomination of money, in China, worth nearly six shillings sterling, or about a dollar and forty cents; also, a weight of one ounce and a third.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  5. tael
    a Chinese unit of weight that, when applied to silver, was long used as a unit of currency. Most taels were equivalent to 1.3 ounces of silver.
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/t/3

  6. Tael
    Tael (also called liang) is a Chinese weight. It was based upon the weight of a non-existent silver coin and was used in commerce between China and foreign countries around the turn of the century.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  7. Tael
    The tael was a Chinese weight unit of account. A tael of silver was made the standard monetary unit, nominally equivalent to 10 mace of ten candareens each, or 1000 copper cash. The tael was never used as an actual coin, but rather to weigh silver ingots.
    Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/brow

  8. Tael
    Chinese unit of weight, slightly more than an ounce.
    Found on http://www.taichichuan.co.uk/news/nb_glo

  9. Tael
    `Tael` ()<ref name=OED>http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50246079 "Tael" entry at the OED Online.--> can refer to any one of several weight measures of the Far East. Most commonly, it refers to the Chinese tael, a part of the Chinese system of weights and currency. In Taiwan, Hong Kon...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tael



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