Cash (unit)

For other uses, see Chinese cash (disambiguation).

Cash
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	釐
Simplified Chinese	厘
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin lí Wade–Giles li^2 Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization lèih Jyutping lei^4 Southern Min Hokkien POJ lî
Korean name
Hangul	고칠 이
Hanja	錢
Transcriptions Revised Romanization gochil i McCune–Reischauer koch'il i
Japanese name
Kanji	釐
Hiragana	り
Transcriptions Romanization ri

Cash or li (simplified Chinese: 厘; traditional Chinese: 釐 or 厘; pinyin: lí) 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 1⁄10 candareen or 1⁄16000 catty, namely 37.79936375 milligrams (0.5833333269 gr).^[2]

See also

• Chinese units of measurement

References

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.

External links

• Chinese/Metric/Imperial Measurement Converter

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