liang

Etymology

The atonal Wade-Giles and pinyin romanization of the standard Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 兩／两 (liǎng). Doublet of leung and yang.

noun

  1. (chiefly historical) Synonym of tael, a former Chinese unit of weight (about 40 g) and a related unit of silver currency.

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