Dan (volume)

A dan or shi (Chinese: 石; 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]

  1. ^ https://en.wiktionary.orgview_html.php?sq=&lang=&q=石
  2. ^ "The Weights and Measures Act (1929)" (in Chinese). Legislative Yuan. Archived from the original on 2014-04-25.
  3. ^ 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. p. 1790. ISBN 978-7-100-12450-8.
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  5. ^ Kim (2007).