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Tael (/ ˈ t eɪ l /), [1] or liang, also known as the tahil and by other names, can refer to any one of several weight measures used in East and Southeast Asia. It usually refers to the Chinese tael, a part of the Chinese system of weights and currency. The Chinese tael was standardized to 50 grams in 1959.
A mace (Chinese: 錢; pinyin: qián; Hong Kong English usage: tsin; [2] Southeast Asian English usage: chee [3]) is a traditional Chinese measurement of weight in East Asia that was also used as a currency denomination. It is equal to 10 candareens and is 1 ⁄ 10 of a tael or approximately 3.78 grams. A troy mace is approximately 3.7429 grams.
The catty or kati is a traditional Chinese unit of mass used across East and Southeast Asia, notably for weighing food and other groceries. Related units include the picul, equal to 100 catties, and the tael, which is 1 ⁄ 16 of a catty. A stone is a former unit used in Hong Kong equal to 120 catties and a gwan (鈞) is 30 catties.
市斤 (Chinese jin; character-by-character translation: "market jin"): Or simply called jin, also called "Chinese pound", is a traditional Chinese unit of weight, equals 500 grams. 公斤 (kilogram, "common jin"): An international metric unit, equivalent to 1000 grams. [46] 磅 (pound, "pound"): A British Imperial unit, about 453.6 grams.
Also formerly a Chinese monetary unit equivalent in value to a tael weight of standard silver. Earliest known use was in 1588, adopted via Portuguese, from Malay tahil (literally 'weight'). [127] [128] Tea from Dutch tay, derived from Malay teh, itself originated from Chinese (Amoy dialect of Hokkien) t'e, which corresponds to Mandarin ch'a ...
The number of coins in a string of cash (simplified Chinese: 一贯钱; traditional Chinese: 一貫錢; pinyin: yīguàn qián) varied over time and place but was nominally 1000. [4] A string of 1000 wén was supposed to be equal in value to one tael (liǎng) of pure silver. [5] Each string of cash was divided in ten sections of 100.
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In China, letters of the English alphabet are pronounced somewhat differently because they have been adapted to the phonetics (i.e. the syllable structure) of the Chinese language. The knowledge of this spelling may be useful when spelling Western names, especially over the phone, as one may not be understood if the letters are pronounced as ...