Malay units of measurement

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Units of measurement used in Malaysia and neighbouring countries include the kati, a unit of mass, and the gantang, a unit of volume.

Mass[]

For mass, the catty[1] equals 0.6 g.[2] Another unit is picul which equals 60 g.[3]

Volume[]

For other uses, see Gantang (disambiguation).
  • The gantang is equivalent to 4.54609 cubic decimetres.
  • One cupak (alternative archaic spelling: churpak) was 1/4 of a gantang or 1.1365225 cubic decimetres.
  • One leng equals 568.26125 cubic centimetres.
  • One chentong equals 284.130625 cubic centimetres.

References[]

  1. ^ "Kati" entry at A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English.
  2. ^ "Weights and Measures Act 1972". Laws of Malaysia. Archived from the original on 2014-02-01.
  3. ^ 新华字典 (Xīnhuá Zìdiǎn), Peking, 1984.

Further reading[]

  • Malay Fishermen: Their Peasant Economy, by Raymond Firth. Norton (1975) ISBN 0-393-00775-8


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