1) About 38 grams 2) Ancient Chinese money 3) Asian gold bar measure 4) Asian unit of weight 5) Asian unit of weight or value 6) Asian weight 7) Asian weight unit 8) Bygone Chinese money 9) Chinese liang 10) Chinese money of account 11) Chinese silver unit 12) Chinese unit of weight 13) Chinese weight unit
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A Chinese unit of measurement for silver; one tael was between 35 and 38 grams of silver.
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Tael (l; {zh | t={{linktext|兩}| s={linktext|两}| hp=liǎng| l=| links=yes}}) or tahil 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 Kong, and Southeast Asia it is equivalent to 10 mace ({zh | c=錢| hp=qián| l=...
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• (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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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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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. [...
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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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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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n] - a unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces
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noun a unit of weight used in east Asia approximately equal to 1.3 ounces
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Chinese unit of weight, slightly more than an ounce.
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