Tael

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Tael

A unit of weight in Taiwan approximately equivalent to 37.5 grams. It is used primarily in the sale of bulk foodstuffs. An equivalent term is niu.

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However, as the money obtained from voluntary contributions was far short of the amount needed, the succeeding magistrate He Gangzhong consulted with local gentry and decided that, in addition to the 5,000 taels of silver lent by the government, a special duty was to be imposed in proportion to the land taxes upon local residents so as to raise the money for repairs.

'Public interest' as a basis for early modern state-society interactions: Water control projects in Qing China, 1750-1850

"We sell around 200 taels of gold on a daily basis, which is nowhere near the peak of a few years ago," she said.

Gold no longer glitters in Vietnam as prices fall below global rates

To cool down the local surging gold demand, the SBV allowed the Saigon Jewelry Company (SJC), who is entrusted by the SBV as the sole gold bar processor in Vietnam, to process 350,000 taels of Gold, equivalent to 13 tons, to fill in the local shortage of Gold supply.

Gold liquidity worsening in Vietnam as demand outpaces supply

Also, in Erelt, Kasik, Metslang, Rajandi, Ross, Saari, Tael, Vare 1993 : 145 is mentioned wholeness in connection with elative NPs.

Scalarity and dimensionality across categories Estonian pseudopartitive constructions

Most Finnish -AhtA momentatives, for instance, are descriptive and Estonian -ata momentatives typically express onomatopoetic sounds of nature (Hakulinen, Vilkuna, Korhonen, Koivisto, Heinonen, Alho 2004 : 308; Erelt, Kasik, Metslang, Rajandi, Ross, Saari, Tael, Vare 1995 : 453-454).

Frequentative and momentative verbal derivation in Veps

According to certain phonological modifications grade alternation can be classified on the basis of its direction (strengthening/weakening), and type (quantity, length and quality alternation) (Erelt, Kasik, Metslang, Rajandi, Ross, Saari, Tael, Vare 1995 : 144-145; Erelt, Erelt, Ross 1997 : 173-174).

Grade alternation in Voro South Estonian

piastres = 72-5 francs; I assume '1 bar of silver' equalled a 1-ounce tael (see Havard, APF, V [1830]: 345).

Extortion and exploitation in the Nguyen campaign against Catholicism in 1830s-1840s Vietnam

Also Estonian comprehensive grammar treats items such as ma tean and ma arvan as parenthetical items, without which the sentence would still be well-formed (Erelt, Kasik, Metslang, Rajandi, Ross, Saari, Tael, Vare 1993 : 103).

Clauses emerging as epistemic adverbs in Estonian conversation

(25.) Chandu is the Malay term for opium which has been processed for smoking; the tahil (also liang or tael) is equal to 1.3 oz or 37.6 grand is divided into 100 hoon.

Opium and the beginnings of Chinese capitalism in Southeast Asia

Carletti quotes a price of 90 tael per picul, while Jan Huig van Linschoten indicates 140-145 Pesos de a ocho (approximately 100 tael) per picul for medium-quality and 150 to 170 Pesos for high-quality spun raw silk.

The seizure of the Sta. Catarina revisited: The Portuguese Empire in Asia, VOC politics and the origins of the Dutch-Johor alliance (1602 - c.1616)

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