🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

皮重

Pronunciation / Transliteration: pí zhòng

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Tare/tɛər/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"在称重前请先扣除皮重。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The weight of a vehicle or container, deducted from the gross weight to ascertain the weight of the goods contained.

    "The truck was driven onto the scale to determine its tare before loading the cargo."
As verb
  1. 1

    To ascertain the tare of a container or vehicle, or to set a weighing scale to zero to compensate for the weight of a container.

    "Make sure to tare the scale with the empty bowl on it before adding flour."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Arabic word 'ṭarḥ' (tarha), meaning 'that which is subtracted or rejected', entering medieval European commercial terminology via Italian 'tara' and French 'tare' during the expansion of Mediterranean trade. Historically, it denoted the weight of the packaging or container that needed to be deducted from the gross weight to determine the net weight of goods.

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