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Dan (volume)

Chinese unit of volume From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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A dan or shi (Chinese: ; pinyin: dàn, shí) in China, koku in Japan and seok () in Korea, is a unit of volume mainly for grains. It originated in China and later spread to other places in East Asia.[1] One dan is divided into 10 dous or 100 shengs. It is 100 litres in China,[2][3] 180.39 litres in Japan[4] and 180 litres in Korea.[5]

China

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For more details, please see Sheng (volume)

Words

  • 擔石/担石 (dàn dàn)
  • 以升量石 (yǐ shēng liàng dàn)
  • 千石 (qiān dàn)

See also

Notes

  1. The variant figures in Fessley [10] and the UN[11] reports are based on the imperial measuring system.
  2. imp
  3. imp
  4. imp

References

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