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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.
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.
Imperial value Notes lí: 市厘: 1 ⁄ 10 000: 50 mg 0.001 764 oz: cash: fēn: 市分: 1 ⁄ 1000: 500 mg 0.017 64 oz: candareen: qián: 市錢: 1 ⁄ 100: 5 g 0.1764 oz mace or Chinese dram: liǎng: 市兩: 1 ⁄ 10: 50 g 1.764 oz tael or Chinese ounce: jīn: 市斤: 1 500 g 1.102 lb catty or Chinese pound formerly 16 liang = 1 jin dàn ...
A number of units of measurement were used in the Philippines to measure various quantities including mass, area, and capacity. The metric system has been compulsory in the country since 1860, during the late Spanish colonial period. [1] A mixture of Spanish units and indigenous units were used alongside American units in the 1900s.
Common weights were 50, 10, 5 and one tael. Before the year 1840 the government of the Qing dynasty had set the official exchange rate between silver sycees and copper-alloy cash coins was set at 1,000 wén for 1 tael of silver before 1820, but after the year 1840 this official exchange rate was double to 2,000 wén to 1 tael. [5]
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]
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.
For mass, the catty [1] equals 0.6 kg. [2] Another unit is picul which equals 60 kg. [3] Volume. The gantang is equivalent to an imperial ...