Dou (volume)

Dou (Chinese: 斗; pinyin: dǒu), called to in Japan and du in Korea, is a unit of volume in East Asia. It originated in China and later spread to Japan, Korean and other places. One dou equals 10 sheng or 1/10 dan, is 10 liters in China,[1][2] 18.039 liters in Japan[3] and 18 liters in Korea.[4]

Dou is one of the traditional Chinese units of measurement used to measure cereal grains, among other things.[5]

  1. ^ "The Weights and Measures Act (1929)" (in Chinese). Legislative Yuan. Archived from the original on 2014-04-25.
  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. p. 1790. ISBN 978-7-100-12450-8.
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  4. ^ Kim (2007).
  5. ^ Language Institute 2016, p. 316.