Cash (unit)

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

Cash
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Korean name
Hangul고칠 이
Hanja
Japanese name
Kanji
Hiragana

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]

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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. Country Studies. Federal Research Division.