Looking for sentences and phrases with the word tael? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
In 1877, it was bought by the Chinese Merchant Steam Navigation Co for 220 million tael.
The nominal fineness of a Hong Kong tael bar is 990 but in Taiwan 5 and 10 tael bars can be 999,9 fine.
The construction fee plus the cost of equipment reached over 50,000 tael.
The one-and-a-half-million tael facility was donated anonymously to the municipality by a British businessman, believed to be a leading philanthropist of the time.
Examples from Classical Literature
Liang, lyang, n. a Chinese ounce or tael, reckoned as one-third heavier than the ounce avoirdupois.
He said also that at Ichang it was very shocking how few cash they gave for the tael.
Its value in Manilla varies, according to quality, at from twenty dollars a tael down to fourteen for the inferior sorts.
They beat the old man, threw him into the water, and robbed him of a tael of gold.
If Kin were used for dollar, or tael, which is very probable, the sum is enormous.
Both the dollar and the tael are in use in Shanghai, the former worth from 40 to 50 cents and the tael about 65 cents.
She had only got at Priaman 312 bahars of pepper, and twenty tael of gold.
