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tahil

tahil is the alternative form of tael.

Meaning of tael

Noun

tael (plural taels)

  1. Any of several units of measure used in China and elsewhere in eastern Asia, approximately 40 grams, and metricated in Mainland China as exactly 50 grams.
  2. Any of several monetary units equal to the equivalent weight in silver.
  3. (Hong-Kong) Leung, a traditional unit of weight, in modern usage legally defined as 1/16 of a catty or kan (斤) or 0.0377993638 kilograms

Forms of tahil

pluraltahils

Origin of tahil

From Malay tahil.

Questions about tahil

What is tahil the alternative form of?
Tahil is the alternative form of tael.

Words near tahil in the dictionary

  1. tahdig
  2. Taher
  3. Taheri
  4. Taheris
  5. Tahers
  6. tahil
  7. tahils
  8. tahina
  9. tahinas
  10. tahine
  11. tahini

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tahil (page history and authors); tael (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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