Global Information Lookup Global Information

Picul information


Picul
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Vietnamese name
Vietnameseđảm
Korean name
Hangul
Hanja
Japanese name
Kanji
Hiraganaたん / ピクル, ㌯
Malay name
Malaypikul
Indonesian name
Indonesianpikul

A picul /ˈpɪkəl/[1] or tam[2] is a traditional Asian unit of weight, defined as "as much as a man can carry on a shoulder-pole".[1]

  1. ^ a b "picul". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
  2. ^ "Weights and Measures Ordinance". The Law of Hong Kong.

and 28 Related for: Picul information

Request time (Page generated in 0.5822 seconds.)

Picul

Last Update:

A picul /ˈpɪkəl/ or tam is a traditional Asian unit of weight, defined as "as much as a man can carry on a shoulder-pole". The word picul appeared as...

Word Count : 593

History of opium in China

Last Update:

for opium. A chest of opium contained approximately 100 "catties" or 1 "picul", with each catty weighing 1.33 lb (600 g), giving a total of ~140 pounds...

Word Count : 5058

Catty

Last Update:

notably for weighing food and other groceries. Related units include the picul, equal to 100 catties, and the tael, which is 1⁄16 of a catty. A stone is...

Word Count : 372

Pikul

Last Update:

Pikul may refer to: Picul, a Javanese traditional unit of weight Pikul (EP), an EP by Silversun Pickups Joseph Pikul, American security analyst tried...

Word Count : 69

Japanese units of measurement

Last Update:

in historical sources, the tan is more commonly known in English as the picul, pikul, or pikel. "尺貫法(しゃっかんほう)とは". コトバンク (in Japanese). Retrieved 30 September...

Word Count : 2767

Opium

Last Update:

leaves and petals, and shipped in chests of 60–65 kg (132–143 lb) (one picul). Chests of opium were sold in auctions in Calcutta with the understanding...

Word Count : 15006

Ming dynasty

Last Update:

grade divided into two degrees, with ranging salaries (nominally paid in piculs of rice) according to their rank. While provincial graduates who were appointed...

Word Count : 16423

Canton System

Last Update:

100 300 220 510 150 Black Tea (piculs) 7,194 8,000 8,000 5,000 Green Tea (piculs) 6,151 1,450 550 1,400 Raw Silk (piculs) 28 250 Woven Silk (bales) 11...

Word Count : 3979

Tam

Last Update:

Tamalpais High School, California, United States, often abbreviated as Tam Picul or tam, a traditional Asian unit of weight ISO 639-3 language code of the...

Word Count : 421

Chinese astronomy

Last Update:

received seven piculs, while both the Registrars and Chief Diviners had six-and-a-half piculs. The Chiefs of the Clepsydras received six piculs, and the Calendar...

Word Count : 7053

Korean units of measurement

Last Update:

the size of the present-day doe. In the early 17th century, the Joseon picul was reckoned as 15 or 20 mal, but similarly only comprised 89.464 or 119...

Word Count : 3017

Chinese units of measurement

Last Update:

市兩 1⁄16 31.25 g 1.102 oz tael or Chinese ounce jīn 市斤 1 500 g 1.102 lb catty or Chinese pound dàn 擔 100 50 kg 110.2 lb picul or Chinese hundredweight...

Word Count : 1683

Busto Garolfo

Last Update:

Busto Garolfo (Lombard: Büst Picul) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Milan of 13 978 inhabitants. Busto Garolfo is located in the...

Word Count : 730

Carrying pole

Last Update:

Returning from a hunt in German East Africa (circa 1912) Bindle Kanwar Yatra Picul Litter (vehicle) Travois Joseph K. Campbell, Dibble sticks, donkeys, and...

Word Count : 811

Malay units of measurement

Last Update:

gantang, a unit of volume. For mass, the catty equals 0.6 kg. Another unit is picul which equals 60 kg. The gantang is equivalent to an imperial gallon, or...

Word Count : 103

Old China Trade

Last Update:

there were 20,116 piculs exported, while in 1784, the porcelain export declined to 13,780 piculs. Although it reached 25,890 piculs in 1798, soon the...

Word Count : 3607

Ten Great Campaigns

Last Update:

dynasty, costing more than 151 million silver taels. Nearly 1.5 million piculs (1 picul = 100 catties) of cargo were transported for the campaign in Taiwan...

Word Count : 3295

Thai units of measurement

Last Update:

บาท [bàːt] 4 salueng 15 g Tamlueng ตำลึง [tām.lɯ̄ŋ] Tael 4 baht 60 g Chang ชั่ง [t͡ɕʰâŋ] Catty 20 tamlueng 1,200 g Hap หาบ [hàːp] Picul 50 chang 60 kg...

Word Count : 303

Manila folder

Last Update:

"nine-tenths jute" when praising jute production. In 1906, over 2,000,000 piculs of manila fibers were produced, making approximately 66% of the country's...

Word Count : 625

Kamehameha II

Last Update:

November 16, 1820 he bought a Royal Yacht known as Cleopatra's Barge for 8000 piculs of sandalwood (over a million pounds), estimated to be worth about US$80...

Word Count : 2663

Destruction of opium at Humen

Last Update:

pounds (600 g). A chest of opium contained approximately 100 catties or one picul. Wright 2000, p. 21. Zhang 2006, p. 23. Ebrey 2010, p. 236. Alexander 1856...

Word Count : 2485

Manila paper

Last Update:

"nine-tenths jute" when praising jute production. In 1906, over 2,000,000 piculs of manila fibers were produced, making approximately 66% of the country's...

Word Count : 984

Taiwanese units of measurement

Last Update:

000,000/45,359,237 lb 1.323 lb Catty; Same as Japanese Kin Tàⁿ Tâm Dàn 擔 1600  60 kg 6,000,000,000/45,359,237 lb 132.3 lb Picul; Same as Japanese Tan...

Word Count : 643

Quetzaltenango Department

Last Update:

Chicabal, Lacandon, Santa María, Santiaguito, Santo Tomás (also known as Picul) and Siete Orejas, as well as Zunil peak, often erroneously referred to...

Word Count : 4440

List of English words of Malay origin

Last Update:

and Indonesia. First known use was in 1839, derived from Malay parang. Picul a unit of weight used in China and South-East Asia equal to 100 catties...

Word Count : 4438

Tai O

Last Update:

covering 70 acres (28 ha) and that the production has amounted to 25,000 piculs (1,512 metric tons) in 1938. Currently the fishing lifestyle is dying out...

Word Count : 1664

New Army

Last Update:

000,000 taels annually and the Bannermen 4,000,000 taels and 1,000,000 piculs of rice (60,000,000 kg). The reason for the number of the breakdown exceeding...

Word Count : 8186

List of English words of Indonesian origin

Last Update:

(sun) Catty from கட்டி kaṭṭi (Tamil), ultimately derived from Chinese unit Picul: traditional Asian weight unit, derived from Javanese pikul Ribu: topographic...

Word Count : 523

PDF Search Engine © AllGlobal.net