| Cash | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Chinese name | |||||||||||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 釐 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 厘 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Korean name | |||||||||||||||||||
| Hangul | 고칠 이 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hanja | 錢 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Japanese name | |||||||||||||||||||
| Kanji | 釐 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hiragana | り | ||||||||||||||||||
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Cash orli (simplified Chinese:厘;traditional Chinese:釐 or 厘;pinyin:lí) is a traditionalChinese unit of weight.
The terms "cash" or "le" were documented to have been used byBritish explorers in the 1830s when trading inQing territories ofChina.[1]
Under theHong Kong statute of the Weights and Measures Ordinance, 1 cash is about 0.0013 ounces (0.037 g). Currently, it is1⁄10candareen or1⁄16000catty, namely 37.79936375 milligrams (0.5833333269 gr).[2]
The highest weight used in reckoning money, istael, (leang,) which is divided intomace, (tseen,)candareens, (fun,) andcash, (le.) The relative value of these terms, both among the Chinese, and in foreign money, can be seen by the following table. It should be observed here, that these terms,taels, mace, candareens, cash, peculs,and catties, covids, punts, &;c., are not Chinese words, and are never used by the Chinese among themselves; and, the reason of their employment by foreigners, instead of the legitimate terms, is difficult to conjecture.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in thepublic domain. Country Studies.Federal Research Division.