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塔勒

Mandarin · pinyin tǎ lè

thaler or taler (currency of various Germanic countries in 15th-19th centuries) (loanword)

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塔: tǎ · tower, spire, tall building
勒: lēi · strangle, tighten

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3–4 · ta3 le4

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