Chinese units of measurement

Chinese units of measurement are the customary and traditional units of measure used in the People's Republic of China. The units were standardized during the twentieth century to make them approximate SI units. Many of the units were formerly based on the number 16 instead of 10. Hong Kong was outside the reform, and now the traditional units are used alongside with metric units. The Taiwanese units of measurement, which appeared under the colonial influences of the Dutch and the Japanese, for the most part may have similar names but are different from the Chinese units of measurement.
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