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The tael is a legal weight measure in Hong Kong, and is still in active use. [2] In Hong Kong, one tael is 37.799364167 g, [2] and in ordinance 22 of 1884 is 1 + 1 ⁄ 3 oz. avoir. Similar to Hong Kong, in Singapore, one tael is defined as 1 + 1 ⁄ 3 ounce and is approximated as 37.7994 g [3]
Related units include the picul, equal to 100 catties, and the tael, which is 1 ⁄ 16 of a catty. A stone is a former unit used in Hong Kong equal to 120 catties and a gwan ( 鈞 ) is 30 catties. Catty or kati is still used in Southeast Asia as a unit of measurement in some contexts especially by the significant Overseas Chinese populations ...
A mace (Chinese: 錢; pinyin: qián; Hong Kong English usage: tsin; [2] Southeast Asian English usage: chee [3]) is a traditional Chinese measurement of weight in East Asia that was also used as a currency denomination. It is equal to 10 candareens and is 1 ⁄ 10 of a tael or approximately 3.78 grams. A troy mace is approximately 3.7429 grams.
The Hong Kong SAR continues to use its traditional units, now legally defined based on a local equation with metric units. For instance, the Hong Kong catty is precisely 604.789 82 g. Note: The names lí (釐 or 厘) and fēn (分) for small units are the same for length, area, and mass; however, they refer to different kinds of measurements.
Cash or li (simplified Chinese: 厘; traditional Chinese: 釐 or 厘; pinyin: lí) is a traditional Chinese unit of weight.. The terms "cash" or "le" were documented to have been used by British explorers in the 1830s when trading in Qing territories of China.
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The coins' weight vary by several grains, leading to sources differing on their standard weight. Its official weight was 72 candareen , or 72% of the Kuping tael weight. The definition of the Kuping tael was inconsistent during the Qing Dynasty, but was standardized as 37.301 g (1.316 oz) in late 1914, leading to a weight for the coin equal to ...
Although the Taiwanese units have similar names to those in Chinese units of measurement and Hong Kong units of measurement, the standards are different from those used in China and Hong Kong due to them being Japanese in origin.