Dan (unit)
Dan ( Chinese 石 , Pinyin dàn , Jyutping daam 3 ) was a Chinese measure of volume and grain and also a Mongolian measure of volume.
- China
- 1 Dan = 12,070 Parisian cubic inches = 239 3/25 liters
- Mongolia
- 1 Dan = 165 liters
See also
literature
- Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 54.
Individual evidence
- ^ Term "dan .: 石 - shí / dàn " (Chinese): [1] , on zdic.net, accessed on July 5, 2018 - online
- ↑ Peter Kurzweil: The Vieweg unit lexicon. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 2000; P. 92, ISBN 3528169877 .