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Weights and Measures
THE weights and measures used in the Colony consist of the standards in use in the United Kingdom, and also the Chinese weights and measures given with their British and Metric equivalents in the table below:
Length*
UNIT
EQUIVALENTS
Domestic
British
Metric
1 fan
0.146 in
3.715 mm
1 ts'un or tsun (Chinese inch)...
10 fan
1.463 in
3.715 cm
1 ch'ek or check (Chinese foot)
10 ts'un
14.625 in
37.15 cm
1 cheung
10 ch'ek
4.063 yd
3.715 m-
1 lei (Chinese mile)
706-745 yd
646-681 m
Area
1 đau chung
1 mow
Weight
1 fan or candareen
1 ts'in or tsun or mace
1 tael or tahil or leung
1 catty or kan .....
1 picul or tam .....
806.7
sq yd
6.745 a
1,008
sq yd
8.431 a
0.013 oz
3.78 dg
10 fan
0.133 oz
3.78 g
+
10 ts'in
16 tael
100 catty
1.333 oz
37.8
g
1.333 lb
133.333 lb
604.8
g
60.48 kg
* Values vary in practice. The statutory equivalent of the ch'ek (foot) is 14§ in but the ch'ek varies according to the trade in which it is used from 14§ in to 11 in, the commonest equivalent being 14.14 in.