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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

with their British and Metric equivalents in the table below:

UNIT

EQUIVALENTS

British

—

Domestic

Metric

Length*

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

1 lei (Chinese mile)

4.063 yd 706-745 yd

3.715 m

646-681 m

Area

1 dau 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

1,008

sq yd sq yd

6.745 a

8.431_a

0.013 oz

3.78 dg

10 fan

0.133 oz

3.78 g

10 ts'in

1.333 oz

37.8

g

ון

16 tael

100 catty

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 143 in to 11 in, the commonest equivalent being 14.14 in.