Definitions for taels

taels tael

Spelling: [teyl]
IPA: /teɪl/

Taels is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 101 anagrams from letters in taels (aelst).

Definitions for taels

noun

  1. liang.
  2. any of various other similar units of weight in the Far East.
  3. a former Chinese money of account, being the value of this weight of standard silver.

Origin of taels

1580-90; Portuguese Malay tahil liang

Examples for taels

The tael is worth 10 mace, or 100 candareens; and is of the value of about six shillings, according to present computation.

The value of the Haikwan tael, or customs tael, is about 4s.

If Kin were used for dollar, or tael, which is very probable, the sum is enormous.

They beat the old man, threw him into the water, and robbed him of a tael of gold.

Its value in Manilla varies, according to quality, at from twenty dollars a tael down to fourteen for the inferior sorts.

She had only got at Priaman 312 bahars of pepper, and twenty tael of gold.

Both the dollar and the tael are in use in Shanghai, the former worth from 40 to 50 cents and the tael about 65 cents.

Liang, lyang, n. a Chinese ounce or tael, reckoned as one-third heavier than the ounce avoirdupois.

The mace is usually estimated at about 8d., and the tael 6s.

He said also that at Ichang it was very shocking how few cash they gave for the tael.

Word Value for taels
Scrable

4

Words with friends

5

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