Units of measurement used in Malaysia and neighbouring countries include the kati, a unit of mass, and the gantang, a unit of volume.
Mass
For mass, the catty equals 0.6 kg. Another unit is picul which equals 60 kg.
Volume
For other uses, see Gantang (disambiguation).The gantang is equivalent to an imperial gallon, or 4.54609 cubic decimetres.
| Unit | Imperial gallon |
Millilitres | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| kepul | 1⁄16 | 284.130625 | ||||
| leng | 1⁄8 | 568.26125 | ||||
| cupak | 1⁄4 | 1136.5225 | ||||
| gantang | 1 | 4546.09 | ||||
| sukat | 4 | 18184.36 | ||||
| nalih | 16 | 72737.44 | ||||
| kunca | 160 | 727374.4 | ||||
| Note: The millilitre equivalences are exact. | ||||||
References
- "Kati" entry at A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English.
- "Weights and Measures Act 1972". Laws of Malaysia. Archived from the original on 2014-02-01.
- 新华字典 (Xīnhuá Zìdiǎn), Peking, 1984.
Further reading
- Malay Fishermen: Their Peasant Economy, by Raymond Firth. Norton (1975) ISBN 0-393-00775-8
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