tael in English
noun
1
a weight used in China and East Asia, of varying amount but fixed in China at 50 grams (1 3 / 4 oz.).
Due to the intercession of Russia, Germany and France, the Manchurian government paid Japan 300 million taels of silver to ‘reclaim’ Liaotung.
Use "tael" in a sentence
Below are sample sentences containing the word "tael" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "tael", or refer to the context using the word "tael" in the English Dictionary.
1. The herbs were one tael and three coins.
2. China paid staggering twenty one million tael of silver as war reparation when the British defeated China in the First Opium War.
3. The stakes continued to rise, some betting two, some three taels , so Trinket put on two and won two; with the next throw he lost one tael.