zhàng
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The zhàng () is a customary Chinese unit of length equal to 10 chi (Chinese feet). Its value varied over time and place with different values of the chi, although it was occasionally standardized. In 1915, the Republic of China set it equal to about 3.2meters or 3.50yards. In 1930, this was revised to an exact value of 3⅓meters (about 3.645yd).
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It sits within the topics Chinese units of measurement, Customary units of measurement and Standards of China.
Its subject is documented across 8 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Instance of
- unit of length
- Country
- China
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- Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent
- wd:Q12170198 p:P2370/psn:P2370 [wikibase:quantityAmount ?source; wikibase:quantityUnit ?base]. ?item p:P2370/psn:P2370 [wikibase:quantityAmount ?target; wikibase:quantityUnit ?base]. BIND(?source / ?target as ?value)
- conversion to SI unit
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- measured physical quantity
- length
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The zhàng () is a customary Chinese unit of length equal to 10 chi (Chinese feet). Its value varied over time and place with different values of the chi, although it was occasionally standardized. In 1915, the Republic of China set it equal to about 3.2meters or 3.50yards. In 1930, this was revised to an exact value of 3⅓meters (about 3.645yd).
It is not commonly used in mainland China today but appears in traditional Chinese architecture, where it was commonly used to measure bays.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “zhàng” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.