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Chinese steelyard
weight
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weigh beam
lifting handle
scale-hook
scale pan
Conversation:
how much for a jin?
is there one jin?
★The principle of Chinese steelyard is same as that of Balance. Chinese parents would face the baby with brush pen, the ear of corn, hammer and steelyard (separately stands for literature, agriculture, industry and business) on the first birthday. It is very auspicious if the baby grab steelyard. This foretells the child would be good at business in future. Actually Chinese steelyard is not accurate. Most could measure to 5 grams. But it is enough for selling vegetable. Therefore, it is still the retailer’ portable tool in vegetable market.
Chinese traditional units of weight:
qian liang jin dan
qian
liang
jin
dan
international standard
weight
grams
kilogram
ton
carat
gross weight
net weight
Balances
platform balance
Electronic scale
Bathroom scale
Input the weight to be converted here
★One qian equals to 5 grams. One liang equals to 50 grams. One jin equals to 500 grams. One dan equals to 50 kilograms. Kilogram system is in use in formal occasions in china. However, 钱两斤担are traditional units of measurement. They are still in wide use in civil life. Foreigners have to understand the conversion among Chinese units of weight. Don’t confuse with the metric system. Use the following software to do the conversion among Chinese units of weight. The software for conversion of weight
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