Cash (unit) explained
Cash or li 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.[1]
Under the Hong Kong statute of the Weights and Measures Ordinance, 1 cash is about . Currently, it is candareen or catty, namely .[2]
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- Book: Roberts, Edmund . Edmund Roberts (diplomat) . Embassy to the Eastern courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat : in the U. S. sloop-of-war Peacock during the years 1832-3-4 . 1837. First published in 1837 . Harper & brothers . 12212199 . page 136, image 143. Chapter X. Weights and Measures. 5 April 2013. The highest weight used in reckoning money, is tael, (leang,) which is divided into mace, (tseen,) candareens, (fun,) and cash, (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. .
- Web site: Weights and Measures Ordinance . Laws of Hong Kong .
