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Definition of Sycee
1. n. Silver, pounded into ingots of the shape of a shoe, and used as currency. The most common weight is about one pound troy.
Definition of Sycee
1. Noun. An ingot of silver, shaped like a shoe, once used as currency in China. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sycee
1. fine uncoined silver formerly used in China as money [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sycee
Literary usage of Sycee
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Five Years in China: From 1842 to 1847 by Frederick Edwyn Forbes (1848)
"sycee Silver and Gold in Ingots. —Origin of the term sycee.—Classes of sycee
Silver.—Copper Money. — Medals. — Origin of the Bank Note. — Banking in China. ..."
2. Chinese Currency by Joseph Edkins (1901)
"47—sycee, Weight, Value, Touch), states that at Ho-shan ... Refined silver is
cast into sycee.* The name of the caster and the date and place of the casting ..."
3. Bullion and Foreign Exchanges Theoretically and Practically Considered by Ernest Seyd (1868)
"Silver is generally cast into small shoe-shaped Bars, called sycee. There are
three different kinds of sycee, viz: Hulk wan sycee, assayed and marked by the ..."
4. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1869)
"... and no silver (not even sycee or otherwise), is quite a disgrace to the heavens,
and I must decline being banished to such a worthless world, ..."
5. Bullion and Foreign Exchanges Theoretically and Practically Considered by Ernest Seyd (1868)
"The Shanghai sycee or Currency, which is either cast of melted- down Mexican
Dollars, or consists simply of Mexican Dollars, which arc sold by weight. ..."
6. Gold Standard in International Trade: Report on the Introduction of the Gold by Hugh Henry Hanna, Charles Arthur Conant, Jeremiah Whipple Jenks (1904)
"In the foregoing tally of 40 shoes it.is seen that the shoes of sycee in one ...
A "lot" of sycee may contain shoes from different provinces and varying in ..."
7. Metallurgy: The Art of Extracting Metals from Their Ores by John Percy (1880)
"CHINESE METHOD OF ASSAYING SILVER BULLION AND OF PREPARING "sycee"5 OR UNCOINED
SILVER. I am indebted to my friend Mr. C. Tookey for the following account ..."
8. Five Years in China: From 1842 to 1847 by Frederick Edwyn Forbes (1848)
"sycee Silver and Gold in Ingots. —Origin of the term sycee.—Classes of sycee
Silver.—Copper Money. — Medals. — Origin of the Bank Note. — Banking in China. ..."
9. Chinese Currency by Joseph Edkins (1901)
"47—sycee, Weight, Value, Touch), states that at Ho-shan ... Refined silver is
cast into sycee.* The name of the caster and the date and place of the casting ..."
10. Bullion and Foreign Exchanges Theoretically and Practically Considered by Ernest Seyd (1868)
"Silver is generally cast into small shoe-shaped Bars, called sycee. There are
three different kinds of sycee, viz: Hulk wan sycee, assayed and marked by the ..."
11. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1869)
"... and no silver (not even sycee or otherwise), is quite a disgrace to the heavens,
and I must decline being banished to such a worthless world, ..."
12. Bullion and Foreign Exchanges Theoretically and Practically Considered by Ernest Seyd (1868)
"The Shanghai sycee or Currency, which is either cast of melted- down Mexican
Dollars, or consists simply of Mexican Dollars, which arc sold by weight. ..."
13. Gold Standard in International Trade: Report on the Introduction of the Gold by Hugh Henry Hanna, Charles Arthur Conant, Jeremiah Whipple Jenks (1904)
"In the foregoing tally of 40 shoes it.is seen that the shoes of sycee in one ...
A "lot" of sycee may contain shoes from different provinces and varying in ..."
14. Metallurgy: The Art of Extracting Metals from Their Ores by John Percy (1880)
"CHINESE METHOD OF ASSAYING SILVER BULLION AND OF PREPARING "sycee"5 OR UNCOINED
SILVER. I am indebted to my friend Mr. C. Tookey for the following account ..."
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