Cash (unit)
Cash or li (simplified Chinese: 厘; traditional Chinese: or 厘; pinyin: lí) is a traditional Chinese unit of weight.
The terms "cash" or "le" were documented to have been used by British explorers in the 1830s when trading in Qing territories of China.
Under the Hong Kong statute of the Weights and Mesaures Ordinance, 1 cash is about 0.0013 ounces (0.037 g). Currently, it is 1⁄10 candareen or 1⁄16000 catty, namely 3.779936375 milligrams (0.05833333269 gr).
This article incorporates public domain material from the Library of Congress Country Studies website http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/.
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