Grams to Taels (Hong Kong) (g to tael)

1 gram equals 0.02645547146 taels (Hong Kong) (rounded).

1 gram = 0.02645547146 taels (Hong Kong)

How to convert grams to taels (Hong Kong)

To convert grams to taels (Hong Kong), multiply the number of grams by 0.02645547146. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply taels (Hong Kong) by 37.79936417 (rounded).

taels (Hong Kong) = grams × 0.02645547146

Example: 10 grams = 0.2645547146 taels (Hong Kong).

About these units

Gram (g)

Metric (SI)Current unit

One thousandth of a kilogram. The standard unit for food quantities and small objects.

A gram was once defined as a small drop of the natural world. The French National Convention of 1795 set it as the absolute weight of a volume of pure water equal to a cube one hundredth of a metre on each side, a cubic centimetre. The reference temperature was first the melting point of ice and was later changed to the temperature of maximum density of water, about 4 degrees Celsius. The word came into French as gramme, from Late Latin gramma, itself from the Greek for a letter or small mark; in Late Antiquity it meant about one twenty-fourth of an ounce.

The gram was the base unit of mass in the centimetre-gram-second system, but in 1960 the SI took the kilogram as its base unit, which made the gram one thousandth of it. That is why it appears in so many everyday places: it is the standard for non-liquid ingredients in cooking and shopping, and nutrition labels commonly list contents per 100 g. For a sense of scale, a small paper clip or a pen cap weighs about a gram, and a Japanese 1-yen coin is close to exactly that, while a US penny is around 2.5 g.

1 gram = 0.001 kilograms (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Gram; Wikipedia: Kilogram

Tael (Hong Kong) (tael)

ChineseTraditional unit (still used in some regions)

One sixteenth of a Hong Kong catty, exactly 1⅓ ounces (about 37.80 g). Still used for gold and Chinese medicine.

Jewellers' windows in Hong Kong quote gold in a word that came from the Malay tahil, meaning simply weight, and passed through Portuguese into English as tael. The Chinese name is liang, and the unit has been the small change of Chinese weighing for centuries, used for gold, silver and Chinese medicines. The Hong Kong trade tael is a sixteenth of the catty, which makes it one and one third avoirdupois ounces, or 37.799364 g.

Gold and other precious metals are traded on a separate Hong Kong troy tael of 37.429 g, so a gold shop and a herbalist may use slightly different taels. Elsewhere the value differs again. Taiwan, Korea and Thailand use 37.5 g, Vietnam about 37.8 g, and mainland China since 1959 uses 50 g, a tenth of its market jin.

1 tael (Hong Kong) = 0.03779936417 kilograms (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Tael; Wikipedia: Catty; Wikipedia: Chinese units of measurement

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