Taiwanese units of measurement
Taioaan thoanthorng ee tan'ui hexthorng (Taiwanese units of measurement) si Taioaan thong'iong ee tan'ui hexthorng ciid.
Tngto (長度, Linear measure)
Linear measure in Taiwan is largely metric (kongchiøq, meter) but some units derived from traditional Japanese units of measurement remain in use.
- 1 zhuxn (寸, J: sun, E: inch) = 3.030 cm
- 1 chiøq (尺, J: shaku, E: foot; taichiøq) = 10 zhuxn = 30.3 cm
- 1 taitiong (台丈; J: ?) = 3.3 m
- tailie (Taiwanese mile)
Biexnzeg (面積, area)
Unlike with other measures, area (biexnzeg) continues to be almost exclusively measured with traditional rather than SI units. Taiwanese units of land measurement derive from both traditional Dutch and Japanese measurements. The principal unit of land measure, the kaq (阿甲), derives from the obsolete Dutch unit of measure morgen, which was introduced in Taiwan's era of Dutch colonization; or from the Dutch word for "field", akker . The principal unit for measuring the floorspace of an office or apartment, the pheeng, like the Korean pyeong, derives from the Japanese tsubo (坪), and is the size of one sleeping (tatami) mat. The løee represented the area that could be farmed by one man with one head of oxen and one plow.
- 1 pheeng (坪) = 3.31 square meters
- 1 bor (畝) = 30 pheeng = 99.2 square meters
- 1 kaq (甲) = 2934 pheeng = 9699 square meters (2.39672 acres)
- 1 løee (犁) = 5 kaq = 14670 pheeng = 48496 square meters
Iongliong (容量, volume)
Taxngliong (重量, weight/mass)
- 1 buun (文, cash) = 37.5 mg
- 1 hwn (分, candareen) = 10 buun = 375 mg
- 1 cvii (錢, mace) = 10 hwn = 3.75 g
- 1 niuo (兩, tael) = 10 cvii = 37.5 g (1.323 oz.)
- 1 kyn/kwn (斤, catty, Taikyn) = 16 niuo = 600 g (1.323 lbs.)
- 1 tvax (擔, picul) = 100 Taikyn = 60 kg (132.3 lbs.)
Note: one 兩 (M: liǎng) is 50 g in modern China. Proverb: Cidkyn zablak niuo. Cidee pvoax kyn, cidee poeq niuo.