Crossword-Solution: TAEL 4 letters, 76 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

The term means "thousandth-part money," that is, the thousandth part of a _tael_ or Chinese ounce of silver, say one _cash_; and it was originally applied to a tax of one _cash_ per tael on all sales, said to have been voluntarily imposed on themselves by the people, as a temporary measure, with a view to make up the deficiency in the land-tax caused by the rebellion.

There are still a couple to be found in other people's rooms and won't you, Madame, conform with the rule? Besides, the saving of a tael is a small matter." After this argument, Madame Wang indulged in further thought.

Any proposal, therefore, that might now be made, that this tael should, as Hsi Jen is Pao-yü's servant, be curtailed, can, on no account, be entertained.

Yet, were it suggested that another servant should be added to our senior's staff, then in this way one could reduce the tael she gets.

But this new doctor has come only this once so he should be given a tael." After this explanation, Pao-yü readily bade She Yüeh go and fetch the money.