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 kg.[2] Another unit is picul which equals 60 kg.[3]
Volume
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The gantang is equivalent to an imperial gallon, or 4.54609 cubic decimetres.
| Unit | Imperial gallon |
Millilitres | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| kepul | <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />1⁄16 | 284.130625 | ||||
| leng | <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />1⁄8 | 568.26125 | ||||
| cupak | <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />1⁄4 | 1136.5225 | ||||
| gantang | 1 | 4546.09 | ||||
| sukat | 4 | 18184.36 | ||||
| nalih | 16 | 72737.44 | ||||
| kunca | 160 | 727374.4 | ||||
| Note: The millilitre equivalences are exact. | ||||||
References
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- ↑ "Kati" entry at A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English.
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- ↑ 新华字典 (Xīnhuá Zìdiǎn), Peking, 1984.
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Further reading
- Malay Fishermen: Their Peasant Economy, by Raymond Firth. Norton (1975) Template:ISBN