Cash (unit)
Traditional Chinese unit of mass
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Cash or li (simplified Chinese: 厘; traditional Chinese: 釐 or 厘; pinyin: lí) is a traditional Chinese unit of weight.
| Cash | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 釐 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 厘 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Korean name | |||||||||||||||||||
| Hangul | 고칠 이 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hanja | 錢 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Japanese name | |||||||||||||||||||
| Kanji | 釐 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hiragana | り | ||||||||||||||||||
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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]
