Tael meaning

tāl
Any of various units of weight used in eastern Asia, roughly equivalent to 38 grams (113 ounces).
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A unit of currency formerly used in China, equivalent in value to this weight of standard silver.
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Any of various units of weight used in eastern Asia, roughly equivalent to 38 grams (113 ounces).
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A unit of currency formerly used in China, equivalent in value to this weight of standard silver.
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Any of various units of weight of E Asia.
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A Chinese unit of money equal in value to a tael of silver.
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Any of several units of measure used in China and elsewhere in eastern Asia, approximately 40 grams.
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Any of several monetary units equal to the equivalent weight in silver.
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(Hong Kong) Leung, a traditional unit of weight, in modern usage legally defined as 1/16 of a catty or kan (æ–¤) or 0.0377993638 kilograms.
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Origin of tael

Portuguese from Malay tahil probably from Javanese from Old Javanese tahil to weigh

Sentence Examples

  • This, the only coin minted by the government, should bear a fixed ratio of l000 cash to one tael of silver, but in practice there is no such fixed value.

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  • TAEL (Malay tail, tahil, weight, probably connected with Hind.

  • As a money of account the tael is divided into to mace (tsien), too conderin or candereen (fun), too() li.

  • the custom-house tael, that in which duties are paid to the Imperial Maritime Customs, is a weight of 5 8 -77 grains Troy, the value of which varies; thus it was reckoned at 3s.

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