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Yin (length)
The Yin () in Mandarin, or ''jan'' in Cantonese, is a traditional Chinese unit of length. One ''yin'' equals 1/15 of a '' li'', 10 ''zhang'', or 33+1⁄3 m in China. Chinese length units promulgated in 1915 Present law on Chinese length units This law of length measurement was issued by the Chinese government in 1929, and has been effective since 1 January, 1930. The base unit ''chi'' is defined to be 1/3 meter.《中华人民共和国国务院公报》1959年第16号（总号：180）第316页《統一公制計量單位中文名称方案》（"Gazette of the State Council of the People's Republic of China" No. 16, 1959 (Total No.: 180) p. 316 "Proposal for Unifying the Chinese Names of Metric Measurement Units" ） Chinese length units in engineering These units are based on the metric system. The Chinese word for metre is ''mǐ'', which can take the Chinese standard SI prefixes (for "kilo-", "centi-", etc.). In the engineering field, traditional units are rounded up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin ( ; zh, s=, t=, p=Guānhuà, l=Mandarin (bureaucrat), officials' speech) is the largest branch of the Sinitic languages. Mandarin varieties are spoken by 70 percent of all Chinese speakers over a large geographical area that stretches from Yunnan in the southwest to Xinjiang in the northwest and Heilongjiang in the northeast. Its spread is generally attributed to the greater ease of travel and communication in the North China Plain compared to the more mountainous south, combined with the relatively recent spread of Mandarin to frontier areas. Many varieties of Mandarin, such as Southwestern Mandarin, those of the Southwest (including Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese) and the Lower Yangtze Mandarin, Lower Yangtze, are not mutually intelligible with the Beijing dialect (or are only partially intelligible). Nevertheless, Mandarin as a group is often placed first in lists of languages by number of native speakers (with nearly one billion). Because Mandarin originated in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
