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Tael (;〔("Tael" entry ) at the OED Online.〕 ) 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 () or catty,〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】work = Singapore Statutes )〕 albeit with slightly different metric equivalents in these two places. These Chinese units of measurement are usually used in the Chinese herbal medicine stores as well as gold and silver exchange. ==Names and etymology== The English word ''tael'' comes through Portuguese from the Malay word ', meaning "weight". Early English forms of the name such as "tay" or "taes" derive from the Portuguese plural of tael, '. Tahil ( in Singaporean English)〔("Tahil" entry ) at A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English.〕 is used in Malay ''and'' English today when referring to the weight in Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei where it is still used in some contexts especially related to the significant Overseas Chinese population. In Chinese, tael is written (simplified Chinese: ) and has the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation in . In Chinese and Vietnamese, the phrase "half a catty, eight taels" (; Vietnamese:), meaning two different presentations of the same thing (similar to the English phrase "Six of one and half-a-dozen of the other"), is still often used today. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tael」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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