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Taels

Tael
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese lượng, lạng
Hán-Nôm
Korean name
Hangul 량 (N)/냥 (S)
Hanja
Mongolian name
Mongolian ᠯᠠᠨ / лан
Japanese name
Kanji
Hiragana りょう(hist. りゃぅ)
Malay name
Malay tahil
Indonesian name
Indonesian tahil
Buryat name
Buryat лан

Tael (/ˈtl/;simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: liǎng) or tahil can refer to any one of several weight measures of the Far East. Most commonly, it refers to the Chinese tael, a part of the Chinese system of weights and currency.

In Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia it is equivalent to 10 mace (Chinese: ; pinyin: qián) or 116 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.

The English word tael comes through Portuguese from the Malay word tahil, meaning "weight". Early English forms of the name such as "tay" or "taes" derive from the Portuguese plural of tael, taeis.


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