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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:

UNIT

Domestic

EQUIVALENTS

British

Metric

Length*

1 fan

1 ts'un or tsun (Chinese inch)

10 fan

1 ch'ek or check (Chinese foot)

10 ts'un

0.146 in

1.463 in

14.625 in

3.715 mm

3.715 cm

37.15

cm

1 cheung

10 ch'ek

1 lei (Chinese mile)

4.063 yd

706-745 yd

3.715 m

646-681 m

Area

1 dau chung

1 mow

806.7 sq yd

6.745 a

1,008

sq yd

8.431 a

Weight

1 fan or candareen

0.013 oz

3.78 dg

1 ts'in or tsun or mace

10 fan

0.133 oz

3.78 g

1 tael or tahil or leung

10 ts'in

1,333 oz

37.8 g

1 catty or kan

16 tael

1.333 lb

604.8

g

1 picul or tam

100 catty

133.333 lb

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.