Shao (unit)

A shao (Chinese: 勺; pinyin: sháo) in China, shaku in Japan and jak in Korea, is a unit of volume measurement in East Asia.[1] One shao equals 1⁄100 sheng. It is 10 mL (millilitres) in China,[2][3] 18.04 mL in Japan[4] and 18 mL in Korea.[5] Shao' is also a unit of area equal to 0.033 square meters (a hundredth of a tsubo) in Japan and Korea.[6]

The Chinese word shao (勺) means a spoon, or an amount held by a spoon. [1]

  1. ^ a b "勺". 3 June 2024.
  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. pp. 1786–1793. ISBN 978-7-100-12450-8.
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  5. ^ Kim (2007).
  6. ^ "勺". 3 June 2024.