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Hao (length)
The Hao ( zh, t=毫, s=毫 , p=háo) in Mandarin, or ''hou'' in Cantonese, is a traditional Chinese unit of length. One ''hao'' equals 1/10 of a '' li'', 1/10000 of a ''chi'', or 33+1⁄3 μm. 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, tradition ... [...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] |
Chinese Units Of Measurement
Chinese units of measurement, known in Chinese as the ''shìzhì'' ("market system"), are the traditional units of measurement of the Han Chinese. Although Chinese numerals have been decimal (base-10) since the Shang dynasty, Shang, several Chinese measures use hexadecimal (base-16). Local applications have varied, but the Chinese dynasties usually proclaimed standard measurements and recorded their predecessor's systems in Chinese dynastic histories, their histories. In the present day, the People's Republic of China maintains some customary units based upon the market units but standardized to round values in the metric system, for example the common ''jin (mass), jin'' or catty (unit), catty of exactly 500gram (unit), g. The Chinese name for most metric units is based on that of the closest traditional unit; when confusion might arise, the word "market" (, ''shì'') is used to specify the traditional unit and "common" or "public" (, ''gōng'') is used for the metric value. Taiw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li (short)
The li ( zh, t=釐, s=厘 , p=lí) in Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin, or ''lei'' in Cantonese, is a traditional Chinese unit of length. One ''li'' equals 10 ''hao (length), hao'', 1/10 of a ''fen (length), fen'', 1/1000 of a ''chi (unit), chi'', or 1/3 mm 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. 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 numerals#SI prefixes, Chinese standard SI prefixes (for "kilo-", "centi-", etc.). A kilometre, however, may also be called ''gōnglǐ'', i.e. a metric ''li (Chinese unit), lǐ''. In the engineering field, traditional units are rounded up to metric units. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Zhàng
The zhang ( zh, c= ) is a customary Chinese unit of length equal to 10 chi (Chinese feet). Its value varied over time and place with different values of the chi, although it was occasionally standardized. In 1915, the Republic of China set it equal to about 3.2meters or 3.50 yards. In 1930, this was revised to an exact value of 3⅓meters (about 3.645yd). It is not commonly used in mainland China today but appears in traditional Chinese architecture, where it was commonly used to measure bays. In Japanese units of measurement, the is equivalent to ten ''shaku'', or 3.03 meters. See also * Chinese units of measurement Chinese units of measurement, known in Chinese as the ''shìzhì'' ("market system"), are the traditional units of measurement of the Han Chinese. Although Chinese numerals have been decimal (base-10) since the Shang dynasty, Shang, several Chine ... Customary units of measurement Units of length Standards of the People's Republic of China References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Numerals
Chinese numerals are words and characters used to denote numbers in written Chinese. Today, speakers of Chinese languages use three written numeral systems: the system of Arabic numerals used worldwide, and two indigenous systems. The more familiar indigenous system is based on Chinese characters that correspond to numerals in the spoken language. These may be shared with other languages of the Chinese cultural sphere such as Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese. Most people and institutions in China primarily use the Arabic or mixed Arabic-Chinese systems for convenience, with traditional Chinese numerals used in finance, mainly for writing amounts on cheques, banknotes, some ceremonial occasions, some boxes, and on commercials. The other indigenous system consists of the Suzhou numerals, or ''huama'', a positional system, the only surviving form of the rod numerals. These were once used by Chinese mathematicians, and later by merchants in Chinese markets, such as those in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metre
The metre (or meter in US spelling; symbol: m) is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI). Since 2019, the metre has been defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of of a second, where the second is defined by a hyperfine transition frequency of caesium. The metre was originally defined in 1791 by the French National Assembly as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole along a great circle, so the Earth's polar circumference is approximately . In 1799, the metre was redefined in terms of a prototype metre bar. The bar used was changed in 1889, and in 1960 the metre was redefined in terms of a certain number of wavelengths of a certain emission line of krypton-86. The current definition was adopted in 1983 and modified slightly in 2002 to clarify that the metre is a measure of proper length. From 1983 until 2019, the metre was formally defined as the length of the pat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fen (length)
The fen ( zh, t=分, s=分 , p=fēn) in Mandarin, fan in Cantonese or hun in Taiwanese, is a traditional Chinese unit of length. One ''fen'' equals 1/10 of a '' cun'' or 1/100 of a '' chi''. It is 3+1⁄3 mm in China mainland, 3.71475 mm in Hong Kong and 3.030 mm in Taiwan. China mainland Hong Kong and Macau These correspond to the measures listed simply as "China" in ''The Measures, Weights, & Moneys of All Nations''. Taiwan Length measure in Taiwan is largely metric but some units derived from traditional Japanese units of measurement remain in use as a legacy of Japanese rule. Taiwanese length units and the translation of length units in metric system (SI) shares the same character. The adjective ''Taiwanese'' () can be added to address the Taiwanese unis system. For example, means Taiwanese foot and means meter. Compounds * "" is a Chinese word which literally means ''fen'' and ''cun'', two traditional Chinese units of length; figuratively, it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
