Cuo (unit)

A Cuo (Chinese: 撮; pinyin: cuō) in China or sai in Japan is a unit of volume measurement.[1] One cuo equals 1⁄1000 sheng. It is 1 mL (millilitres) in China[2] and 1.804 mL in Japan.[3]

The word cuo (撮) means (a) to pick up (e.g., salt) using one's fingertips, or (b) the small amount of something that can be picked up in this way.[1]

  1. ^ a b https://en.wiktionary.orgview_html.php?sq=&lang=&q=撮
  2. ^ Language Institute, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (2016). 现代汉语词典 (附錄：計量單位表) [Contemporary Chinese Dictionary (Appendix: Measure units)] (in Chinese) (7th ed.). Beijing: Commercial Press. pp. 1786–1793. ISBN 978-7-100-12450-8.
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