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The catty or kati is a traditional Chinese unit of mass used across East and Southeast Asia, notably for weighing food and other groceries. 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.
In 1976 the Hong Kong Metrication Ordinance allowed a gradual replacement of the system in favor of the International System of Units (SI) metric system. [6] The Weights and Measures Ordinance defines the metric, Imperial, and Chinese units. [7] As of 2012, all three systems are legal for trade and are in widespread use.
Unit Imperial gallon Millilitres kepul: 1 ⁄ 16 284.130625 leng: 1 ⁄ 8 568.26125 cupak: 1 ⁄ 4 1136.5225 gantang: 1 4546.09 sukat: 4 18184.36 nalih: 16 72737.44 kunca: 160 727374.4 Note: The millilitre equivalences are exact.
A spring scale in Hong Kong shows conversions between metric system (in red), traditional Chinese unit (in green) and British Imperial Units (in blue). Jin (Chinese: 斤; pinyin: jīn), or gan in Cantonese, kin in Taiwanese and Japanese, also called "Chinese pound" or "catty", [a] is a traditional Chinese unit for weight measurement in East Asia.
Some other units and their legal equivalents are given below: 1 thail = 1 ⁄ 1600 pikol 1 catti = 1 ⁄ 100 pikol 1 kabi = 1 ⁄ 100 pikol 1 kulack = 0.0725 pikol 1 amat = 2 pikol 1 small bahar = 3 pikol 1 large bahar = 4.5 pikol 1 timbang = 5 pikol 1 kojang (Batavia) = 27 pikol = 1667.555 kg 1 kojang (Semarang) = 28 pikol = 1729.316 kg
A picul / ˈ p ɪ k əl /, [1] dan [2] or tam, [3] is a traditional Asian unit of weight, defined as "as much as a man can carry on a shoulder-pole". [1] Historically, it was defined as equivalent to 100 or 120 catties, depending on time and region. The picul is most commonly used in southern China and Maritime Southeast Asia.
An input unit can be converted to any number of output units—the outputs are specified as a "combination" by separating unit codes with a space (" ") or a plus ("+"). Using a space as a separator does not work if any of the unit codes contains a space. For example, each of the following converts 1.2 km 2 to acres, square yards, and hectares.
Conversions between units in the metric system are defined by their prefixes (for example, 1 kilogram = 1000 grams, 1 milligram = 0.001 grams) and are thus not listed in this article. Exceptions are made if the unit is commonly known by another name (for example, 1 micron = 10 −6 metre).