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Cash (unit)

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Cash
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Wade–Gilesli2
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanizationlèih
Jyutpinglei4
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ
Korean name
Hangul고칠 이
Hanja
Transcriptions
Revised Romanizationgochil i
McCune–Reischauerkoch'il i
Japanese name
Kanji
Hiragana
Transcriptions
Romanizationri

Cash or li (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: or 厘; pinyin: ) is a traditional Chinese unit of weight.

The terms "cash" or "le" were documented to have been used by British explorers in the 1830s when trading in Qing territories of China.[1]

Under the Hong Kong statute of the Weights and Measures Ordinance, 1 cash is about 0.0013 ounces (0.037 g). Currently, it is 110 candareen or 116000 catty, namely 37.79936375 milligrams (0.5833333269 gr).[2]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Roberts, Edmund (1837) [First published in 1837]. "Chapter X. Weights and Measures". Embassy to the Eastern courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat : in the U. S. sloop-of-war Peacock during the years 1832-3-4. Harper & brothers. page 136, image 143. OCLC 12212199. Retrieved 5 April 2013. The highest weight used in reckoning money, is tael, (leang,) which is divided into mace, (tseen,) candareens, (fun,) and cash, (le.) The relative value of these terms, both among the Chinese, and in foreign money, can be seen by the following table. It should be observed here, that these terms, taels, mace, candareens, cash, peculs, and catties, covids, punts, &;c., are not Chinese words, and are never used by the Chinese among themselves; and, the reason of their employment by foreigners, instead of the legitimate terms, is difficult to conjecture.
  2. ^ "Weights and Measures Ordinance". Laws of Hong Kong.
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