Cash (mass)

Cash (mass)

Cash (Traditional Chinese: 釐 or 厘, Simplified Chinese: 厘) is the English name for the Chinese unit of weight Li.

Terminology

"Li" is the general name used by Chinese. "Cash" or "Le" have also been documented to be used by English explorers in the 1830s when trading in Qing territories of ChinaRoberts, Edmund. [1837] (1837) Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat: In the U.S. Sloop-of-war Peacock. Harper & Brothers. Harvard University archive. No ISBN Digitized.] .

History

Under Hong Kong Law, ordinance 22 of 1884, 1 cash is about 0.0013 oz. avoir.. Currently, it is frac|10 candareen or frac|16000 catty, namely 3.779936375 milligrammecite web|title = Weights and Measures Ordinance |work = The Law of Hong Kong | url = http://www.legislation.gov.hk/blis_ind.nsf/e1bf50c09a33d3dc482564840019d2f4/4ed2ff0cf02f2fd9c82564760077af3c?OpenDocument ] .

References

ee also

* Chinese units of measurement

External links

* [http://www.mandarintools.com/measures.html Chinese/Metric/Imperial Measurement Converter]


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