Taels (Hong Kong) to Ounces (tael to oz)
1 tael (Hong Kong) equals 1.333333333 ounces (rounded).
How to convert taels (Hong Kong) to ounces
To convert taels (Hong Kong) to ounces, multiply the number of taels (Hong Kong) by 1.333333333. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply ounces by 0.75.
ounces = taels (Hong Kong) × 1.333333333
Example: 10 taels (Hong Kong) = 13.33333333 ounces.
About these units
Tael (Hong Kong) (tael)
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
Ounce (oz)
One sixteenth of a pound, exactly 28.349523125 g. Used for food, mail and consumer goods in the US and UK.
A twelfth part is what ounce originally meant. It comes from the Roman uncia, one twelfth of the Roman pound, a word that also gave English the inch. The abbreviation oz does not come from English at all but from the Italian onza or oncia. Over the centuries many regions and trades used different ounces: the English Tower ounce of 29.16 g was abolished by Henry VIII in 1527, and the Dutch ons was redefined as exactly 100 g in 1820.
The avoirdupois ounce used for everyday goods is one sixteenth of a pound, exactly 28.349523125 g or 437.5 grains, the standard in the US and under the UK imperial system. It is not the same as the troy ounce for precious metals, and neither is the fluid ounce, which measures volume. Ounces still describe portions such as steaks and burgers, and they show up in unexpected places: fabric is graded by weight per area, so a 16 oz denim is a heavy cloth, and the copper on a circuit board is specified in ounces, where 1 oz is roughly 34.7 micrometres thick.
1 ounce = 0.02834952313 kilograms (approximately).
Sources: Wikipedia: Ounce; NIST Guide to the SI, Appendix B.8 (mass conversions)
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