Look up: tael

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   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.
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   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.
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   tael
   [n] - a unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces
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   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 cents; also, a weight of one ounce and a third. [ Written also tale .]
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   tael
   noun a unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces
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   Tael
   The `tael` is the name used in English to refer to various weight measures of the Far East. Most commonly, it refers to the Chinese tael , a part of the Chinese system of weights and currency . There were many different weighting standards of tael depending on the region or type of trade. In general the silver tael weighed around 40 grams. The most common government measure was the `Küpíng` tael, weighing 1.2 Troy ounces (37.3 g). A common commer...
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   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.
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   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.
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