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| Chinese name | |||||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 兩 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 两 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Vietnamese name | |||||||||||||||||||
| Vietnamese | lượng, lạng | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hán-Nôm | 兩 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Korean name | |||||||||||||||||||
| Hangul | 량 (N)/냥 (S) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hanja | 兩 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Mongolian name | |||||||||||||||||||
| Mongolian Cyrillic | лан | ||||||||||||||||||
| Mongolian script | ᠯᠠᠨ | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Japanese name | |||||||||||||||||||
| Kanji | 両 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hiragana | りょう(hist. りゃう) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Malay name | |||||||||||||||||||
| Malay | tahil / تهيل (Jawi) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Indonesian name | |||||||||||||||||||
| Indonesian | tahil | ||||||||||||||||||
| Manchu name | |||||||||||||||||||
| Manchu script | ᠶᠠᠨ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Möllendorff | yan | ||||||||||||||||||
| Khmer name | |||||||||||||||||||
| Khmer | តាល | ||||||||||||||||||
| Tangut name | |||||||||||||||||||
| Tangut | 𗍬 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Miyake transcription | 2lu3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Buryat name | |||||||||||||||||||
| Buryat | лан | ||||||||||||||||||
Tael (/ˈteɪl/),[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.
In Hong Kong and Singapore, it is equivalent to 10 mace (Chinese: 錢; pinyin: qián) or 1⁄16 catty,[2][3] albeit with slightly different metric equivalents in these two places. These Chinese units of measurement are usually used in Chinese herbal medicine stores as well as gold and silver exchange.
- ^ "Tael" entry at the OED Online.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
hk_lawwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "Weights and Measures Act (CHAPTER 349) Third Schedule". Singapore Statutes. Government of Singapure. Retrieved 2 July 2021.