Sheng (volume)

The Chinese sheng (Chinese: 升; pinyin: shēng), called sho in Japan and seung in Korea, also called Chinese liter, is a traditional unit of volume in East Asia. It originated from China and later spread to Japan, the Korean Peninsula, Vietnam and other places. One sheng equals 10 ge or 1/10 dou, though its specific capacity has varied by times and regions. Nowadays, it is 1 liter in China,[1][2] 1.8039 liters in Japan[3] and 1.8 liters in Korea.[4]

Sheng is a traditional measure for cereal grains. Now, like "liter", sheng is more often used to measure liquid or gas.[5] [6]

  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. 1165.
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