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Catty Chinese name Chinese 斤Malay kati The catty (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, 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. The word catty originated from the Malay word kati and that spelling is used in Malay and English today when referring to the weight in Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei where it is still used in some contexts especially related to the significant Overseas Chinese population. (It is pronounced /ˈkɛtɪ/ in Singaporean English.)[1] The catty is traditionally equivalent to around 1⅓ pound avoirdupois, formalised as 604.78982 grammes in Hong Kong,[2] 604.79 grammes in Malaysia[3] and 604.8 grammes in Singapore.[4] In some countries, the weight has been rounded to 600 grammes (Taiwan[5] and Thailand). In mainland China, the catty has been rounded to 500 grammes 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. Fruits sold in catties (斤) in a market in Sanchong, New Taipei, Taiwan.[edit] References ^ “Kati” entry at A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English. ^ “Weights and Measures Ordinance”. The Law of Hong Kong. www …
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