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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]
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.
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 ...
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.
In 2010 she won the World Bodybuilding Championship, the first Hong Konger to do so. [1] As a member of the Hong Kong National Sport Climbing Team, she won the 2006 International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation Climbing World Cup, the first Chinese female champion in the world. At home, she was Hong Kong Women’s Speed Climbing Champion ...
Cecilia Yeung Man-wai (楊文蔚; born 18 September 1994) is a high jumper from Hong Kong. She won a silver medal at the 2017 Asian Championships and placed fifth at the 2018 Asian Games . References
Hong Kong saw “A Guilty Conscience” become the highest-grossing film of all time at its local box office. But the wider cinema market in Hong Kong remained stuck far below pre-pandemic levels.
Emily Wong was born in January 1992 in Toronto, Ontario, and moved as a baby to Hong Kong, where she was raised. [4] [7] She exclusively attended local Hong Kong schools.Her primary school's instruction was in Chinese, while her secondary school's instruction was in English except for the two subjects of Chinese and Chinese history. [8]