tiao

noun

dēˈau̇

plural -s

: a string of former Chinese cash or a unit of value equivalent to it varying in amount in different times and localities and the cash often being units of account rather than actual coins

Word History

Etymology

Chinese (Pekingese) tiao⁴

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