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In mainland China, the catty (more commonly translated as jin within China) has been rounded to 500 grams and is referred to as the market catty (市斤 shìjīn) in order to distinguish it from the kilogram, called the common catty (公斤 gōngjīn), and it is subdivided into 10 taels rather than the usual 16.
1 ⁄ 10 condorim 37.799 31 mg: 0.021 33 dr: Not defined in Hong Kong. Macanese definition may not be correct when dividing catty. fan1: 分: fen, fan, candareen: condorim 1 ⁄ 1600: 1 ⁄ 10 maz 377.993 6375 mg: 0.2133 dr Macanese definition of 377.9931 mg may not be correct when dividing catty. cin4: 錢: qian, tsin, mace: maz 1 ⁄ 160: 1 ...
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.
GB 18030 has been supported on Windows since the release of Windows 95, as code page 54936. [21] Windows 2000 and XP offer a GB18030 Support Package. [ 22 ] The open source PostgreSQL database supports GB18030 through its full support for UTF-8, i.e. by converting it to and from UTF-8.
Like other similar measures such as tael and catty, the English word "mace" derives from Malay, in this case through Dutch maes, plural masen, from Malay mas which, in turn, derived from Sanskrit māṣa (माष), a word related to "mash," another name for the urad bean, and masha, a traditional Indian unit of weight equal to 0.97 gram. [5]
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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).
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