Katti
Kätti (from English Catty ) is the German name for the Chinese weight measure jīn ( Chinese ete ), which is widespread throughout East Asia . The name originally comes from Malaya .
100 kätti make a picul ( Chinese 擔 , pinyin dàn ).
One kätti corresponds to 604.79 grams in Hong Kong , 600 g in Japan ( called kin there) and Taiwan and 500 g in the People's Republic of China . Other conversions are also used in other Asian countries.
- Sumatra Island 1 Kätti = 0.9603 kilograms
- Batavia 1 Kätti = 0.61521 kilograms
- Japan (gold and silver) 1 Kätti = 16 Tail = 160 Mas = 1600 Condorin = 0.5896 kilograms
- Canton 1 Kätti = 16 Tail / Täl / Lyangs = 160 Maca / Thsian = 1600 Condorin / Fen = 16,000 Li / Käsch = 0.6013312 kilograms
- Malacca (gold and silver) 1 Kätti = 20 Buncal / Tail / Täl / Lyangs = 64 Rupees = 256 Miam / Maas = 614.4 Carat = 860.16 Coubang = 1720.32 Busu = 0.92965 kilograms
- Bangkok (gold and silver) 1 Kätti = 1.20957 kilograms
literature
- Christian Noback, Friedrich Eduard Noback: Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 2, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851
- Brockhaus' Kleines Konversations-Lexikon. fifth edition, Volume 1, Leipzig 1911, p. 950.
Individual evidence
- ^ Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862, p. 72.
- ^ Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862, p. 236.
- ^ Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862, p. 242.
- ^ Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862, p. 335.
- ^ Leopold Carl Bleibtreu: Handbook of coin, measure and weight and the exchange, government paper, banking and stock system of European and non-European countries and cities. Published by J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1863, p. 53.