Tael

Tael (/ˈteɪl/), also known as the tahil and by other names, can refer to any one of several weight measures used in East Asia 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.

For other uses, see Tael (disambiguation).
Tael
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese兩
Simplified Chinese两
Vietnamese name
Vietnameselượng, lạng
Hán-Nôm兩
Korean name
Hangul량 (N)/냥 (S)
Hanja兩
Mongolian name
Mongolian Cyrillicлан
Mongolian scriptᠯᠠᠨ
Japanese name
Kanji両
Hiraganaりょう(hist. りゃう)
Malay name
Malaytahil / تهيل (Jawi)
Indonesian name
Indonesiantahil
Manchu name
Manchu scriptᠶᠠᠨ
Möllendorffyan
Khmer name
Khmerតាល
Tangut name
Tangut𗍬
Miyake transcription2lu3
Buryat name
Buryatлан

In Hong Kong and Singapore, it is equivalent to 10 mace (Chinese: 錢; pinyin: qián) or 1⁄16 catty, 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.

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