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The tael is a legal weight measure in Hong Kong, and is still in active use. [2] In Hong Kong, one tael is 37.799364167 g, [2] and in ordinance 22 of 1884 is 1 + 1 ⁄ 3 oz. avoir. Similar to Hong Kong, in Singapore, one tael is defined as 1 + 1 ⁄ 3 ounce and is approximated as 37.7994 g [3]
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.
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. Catty or kati is still used in Southeast Asia as a unit of measurement in some contexts especially by the significant Overseas Chinese populations ...
Prior to 1 tael being standardised at 50 g. by the government of the People's Republic of China in 1959, the weight "tael" differed substantially from province to province, the Qing government maintained that 1 tael equals 37.5 g. and this measurement was referred to as the Kuping tael (庫平两), and by official Qing government standards 1 ...
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2814 (stylized in fullwidth characters as 2814 [1]) is a British-American collaborative ambient and vaporwave project of the electronic musicians Luke Laurila, also known as Telepath (stylized as "t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者 "), and David Russo, also known as HKE (an abbreviation of the earlier moniker Hong Kong Express), respectively. [2]
Iskra Lawrence wants you to know you're more than the number on the scale. The British model and body acceptance activist took to Instagram Tuesday to share side-by-side photos of herself in 2015 ...
Permanent Residence (永久居留) is a 2009 Hong Kong film starring Sean Li and Osman Hung.It was directed by Hong Kong filmmaker Danny Cheng, also known as Scud.The film explores several themes traditionally regarded as 'taboo' in Hong Kong society, in an unusually open, convention-defying way, and features full-frontal male nudity in several scenes.