Catty (unit)

Catty
Chinese name
Chinese	斤
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin jīn Wade–Giles chin Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization gàn Southern Min Hokkien POJ kin, kun
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese	cân
Korean name
Hangul	근
Hanja	斤
Transcriptions Revised Romanization geun
Japanese name
Kanji	斤
Hiragana	きん
Transcriptions Romanization kin
Malay name
Malay	kati
Indonesian name
Indonesian	kati

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	jīn
Wade–Giles	chin
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	gàn
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ	kin, kun

Transcriptions
Revised Romanization	geun

Transcriptions
Romanization	kin

The catty or kati (/ˈkɛtɪ/ in Singaporean English), symbol 斤, is a traditional Chinese unit of mass used across East and Southeast Asia, notably for weighing food and other groceries in some wet markets, street markets, and shops. Related units include the picul, equal to 100 catties, and the tael (also spelled tahil, in Malay / Indonesian), which is  ¹⁄₁₆ of a catty. A stone is a former unit used in Hong Kong equal to 120 catties and a gwan (鈞) is 30 catties. Catty or kati is still used in South East Asia as a unit of measurement in some contexts especially by the significant Overseas Chinese populations of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore.

The catty is traditionally equivalent to around 1⅓ pound avoirdupois, formalised as 604.78982 grams in Hong Kong, 604.79 grams in Malaysia and 604.8 grams in Singapore. In some countries, the weight has been rounded to 600 grams (Taiwan and Thailand). In mainland China, the catty has been rounded to 500 grams and is referred to as the market catty (市斤 shìjīn) in order to distinguish it from the "metric catty" (公斤 gōngjīn), or kilogram, and it is subdivided into 10 taels rather than the usual 16.

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