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tayl

tayl is the obsolete 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 tayl

pluraltayls

Questions about tayl

What is tayl the obsolete form of?
Tayl is the obsolete form of tael.

Words near tayl in the dictionary

  1. Taygetan
  2. Taygete
  3. Taygetos
  4. Taygetus
  5. Tayk
  6. tayl
  7. Tayla
  8. Tayler
  9. Tayleur
  10. taylor
  11. Taylor Bay

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tayl (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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