Taels (Hong Kong) to Metric Tons (tael to t)

1 tael (Hong Kong) equals 0.00003779936417 metric tons (rounded).

1 tael (Hong Kong) = 0.00003779936417 metric tons

How to convert taels (Hong Kong) to metric tons

To convert taels (Hong Kong) to metric tons, multiply the number of taels (Hong Kong) by 0.00003779936417. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply metric tons by 26,455.47146 (rounded).

metric tons = taels (Hong Kong) × 0.00003779936417

Example: 10 taels (Hong Kong) = 0.0003779936417 metric tons.

About these units

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

Metric Ton (t)

Metric (SI)Current unit

1,000 kilograms (about 2,204.6 lb), also spelled tonne. Used for cargo, grain and vehicle weights outside the US.

Barrels gave the tonne its name. The word goes back to a Germanic root for a large cask, the tun, and a full tun could easily weigh around a tonne. In English this became ton; the spelling tonne has been used in France since 1842, where it replaced the older tonneau, and pre-metric French tonnes were 2,000 livres, about 979 kg. Once the metric system took hold, the tonne was fixed at 1,000 kilograms, which is the mass of roughly a cubic metre of water.

The unit is accepted for use with the SI, and its symbol is a lowercase t with no period. Because it sits close to the old English ton, the two get confused: the short ton used in the US is about 10 percent lighter than a tonne, while the long ton differs by less than 2 percent. NIST calls the unit the metric ton, and the spelling tonne is rare in the US. Very large quantities are stated in prefixed forms such as the megatonne, which equals a teragram. In explosives, a tonne of TNT is taken as about 4.2 gigajoules.

1 metric ton = 1,000 kilograms (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Tonne; Wikipedia: Ton; NIST Guide to the SI, Appendix B.8 (mass conversions)

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