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Burmese units of measurement


From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Burmese units or the Burmese system is a collection of units of measurement used in Burma. Burma is one of three countries that still predominantly uses a non-metric system of measure (beside the US and Liberia).[1] However, in June 2011, the Burmese government's Ministry of Commerce began discussing proposals to reform the measurement system in Burma and adopt the metric system used by most of its trading partners.[2]
Most Burmese units are used solely in the nation but Burmese government web pages in English use imperial and metric units. For instance, the Ministry of Agriculture uses acres for land areas.[3] The Ministry of Construction uses miles to describe the length of roads,[4] and square feet for the size of housing constructed[5] but square kilometres for the total land area of new town developments in Yangon City.[6] Also, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs uses kilometres (with mile equivalents in parentheses) to describe the dimensions of the country.[7]

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[edit]Length

Table of length units
UnitMetricImperial/USRatio to
previous
BurmeseRomanizedmillimetresmetresinchesfeetyardsmiles
ဆံခ်ည္sanchi0.0793750.0000793750.0031250.00026
နှမ်းhnan0.793750.000793750.031250.00260410
မုယောmayaw4.76250.00476250.18750.0156256
လက်သစ်let thit19.050.019050.750.06254
မိုက္maik152.40.152460.58
ထြာhtwa228.60.228690.751.5
ေတာင္taung457.20.4572181.50.52
လံlan1828.81.828872624
တာta3200.43.200412610.53.51.75
ဥသဘout-thaba
(from Pali usaba)
64008.064.00825202107020
ေကာသkawtha
(from Pali kosa)
1280160.01280.1650400420014000.795420
ဂါဝုတ်ga-wout
(from Pali gavuta)
5120640.05120.642016001680056003.18184
ယူဇနာyuzana
(from Pali yojana)
20482560.020482.56806400672002240012.72724

[edit]Mass

Table of mass units
UnitMetricImperial/USRatio to
previous
BurmeseRomanizedgramskilogramsgrainsouncespounds
ေရြးေလးyway lay0.1360777060.0001360782.100317
ေရြးႀကီးyway gyi0.2721554120.0002721554.2006352
ပဲသားpetha1.0205828330.00102058315.752383.75
မူးသားmutha2.0411656650.00204116631.504762
မတ္သားmattha4.082331330.00408233163.0095392
ငါးမူးသားnga mutha8.164662660.008164662126.0190780.2917102
က်ပ္သားkyattha
Traditionally known as a tical in English.
16.329325320.016329325252.0381560.5834212
အဝက္သားawettha204.11656650.2041165673150.4769557.2927700.45579812.5
အစိတ္သားaseittha408.2331330.4082331336300.95391014.5855410.9115962
ငါးဆယ္သားngase tha816.4662660.81646626612601.90782029.1710821.8231922
ပိဿာpeittha
Traditionally known as a viss in English.
1632.9325321.63293253225203.81564158.3421653.6463852
အခ်ိန္တစ္ရာachein taya16329.3253216.32932532252038.15641583.4216536.4638510

[edit]Volume

Table of volume units
UnitMetricImperialRatio to
previous
BurmeseRomanizedmillilitreslitresfluid ouncespintsgallons
လမြူla myu7.99095070.0079909510.28124
လမျက်la myet15.98190140.0159819010.562482
လမယ်la me31.96380290.0319638031.124962
စလယ်sa le63.92760590.0639276062.249930.112492
ခွက်hkwet127.8552110.1278552124.499870.224992
ပြည်pyi255.710420.2557104248.999740.449982
စိတ်seit1022.841691.0228416935.998991.799944
ခွဲhkwe2045.683392.0456833971.997983.5998990.449982
တင်းtin40913.667940.91366791439.9598071.997998.9997420

[edit]Money

Table of money units
UnitEquivalent to
RomanizedBurmese
1 pyaပြား
1 matမတ်25 pya
5 muငါးမူး2 mat
1 kyatကျပ်10 mu

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Burmese units of measurement

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Burmese units or the Burmese system is a collection of units of measurement used in Burma. Burma is one of three countries that still predominantly uses a non-metric system of measure (beside the US and Liberia).[1] However, in June 2011, the Burmese government's Ministry of Commerce began discussing proposals to reform the measurement system in Burma and adopt the metric system used by most of its trading partners.[2]
Most Burmese units are used solely in the nation but Burmese government web pages in English use imperial and metric units. For instance, the Ministry of Agriculture uses acres for land areas.[3] The Ministry of Construction uses miles to describe the length of roads,[4] and square feet for the size of housing constructed[5] but square kilometres for the total land area of new town developments in Yangon City.[6] Also, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs uses kilometres (with mile equivalents in parentheses) to describe the dimensions of the country.[7]

Contents

  [hide

[edit]Length

Table of length units
UnitMetricImperial/USRatio to
previous
BurmeseRomanizedmillimetresmetresinchesfeetyardsmiles
ဆံခ်ည္sanchi0.0793750.0000793750.0031250.00026
နှမ်းhnan0.793750.000793750.031250.00260410
မုယောmayaw4.76250.00476250.18750.0156256
လက်သစ်let thit19.050.019050.750.06254
မိုက္maik152.40.152460.58
ထြာhtwa228.60.228690.751.5
ေတာင္taung457.20.4572181.50.52
လံlan1828.81.828872624
တာta3200.43.200412610.53.51.75
ဥသဘout-thaba
(from Pali usaba)
64008.064.00825202107020
ေကာသkawtha
(from Pali kosa)
1280160.01280.1650400420014000.795420
ဂါဝုတ်ga-wout
(from Pali gavuta)
5120640.05120.642016001680056003.18184
ယူဇနာyuzana
(from Pali yojana)
20482560.020482.56806400672002240012.72724

[edit]Mass

Table of mass units
UnitMetricImperial/USRatio to
previous
BurmeseRomanizedgramskilogramsgrainsouncespounds
ေရြးေလးyway lay0.1360777060.0001360782.100317
ေရြးႀကီးyway gyi0.2721554120.0002721554.2006352
ပဲသားpetha1.0205828330.00102058315.752383.75
မူးသားmutha2.0411656650.00204116631.504762
မတ္သားmattha4.082331330.00408233163.0095392
ငါးမူးသားnga mutha8.164662660.008164662126.0190780.2917102
က်ပ္သားkyattha
Traditionally known as a tical in English.
16.329325320.016329325252.0381560.5834212
အဝက္သားawettha204.11656650.2041165673150.4769557.2927700.45579812.5
အစိတ္သားaseittha408.2331330.4082331336300.95391014.5855410.9115962
ငါးဆယ္သားngase tha816.4662660.81646626612601.90782029.1710821.8231922
ပိဿာpeittha
Traditionally known as a viss in English.
1632.9325321.63293253225203.81564158.3421653.6463852
အခ်ိန္တစ္ရာachein taya16329.3253216.32932532252038.15641583.4216536.4638510

[edit]Volume

Table of volume units
UnitMetricImperialRatio to
previous
BurmeseRomanizedmillilitreslitresfluid ouncespintsgallons
လမြူla myu7.99095070.0079909510.28124
လမျက်la myet15.98190140.0159819010.562482
လမယ်la me31.96380290.0319638031.124962
စလယ်sa le63.92760590.0639276062.249930.112492
ခွက်hkwet127.8552110.1278552124.499870.224992
ပြည်pyi255.710420.2557104248.999740.449982
စိတ်seit1022.841691.0228416935.998991.799944
ခွဲhkwe2045.683392.0456833971.997983.5998990.449982
တင်းtin40913.667940.91366791439.9598071.997998.9997420

[edit]Money

Table of money units
UnitEquivalent to
RomanizedBurmese
1 pyaပြား
1 matမတ်25 pya
5 muငါးမူး2 mat
1 kyatကျပ်10 mu

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Weight Conversion Table


1 Viss 1 Viss (100 ticals) 3 lbs + 8 oz 1.633 Kg

1/2 Viss 1/2 Viss (50 ticals) 1 lbs + 12 oz
1/4 Viss 1/4 Viss (25 ticals) 14 oz

1/8 Viss 1/8 Viss (12.5 ticals) 7 oz
1/16 Viss 1/16 Viss (6.25 ticals) 3.5 oz

1 Ounce 30 (28.35) Grams
2 Ounces 60 (56.70) Grams

3 Ounces 90 (85.05) Grams
4 Ounces 110 (113.40) Grams

5 Ounces 140 (141.75) Grams
6 Ounces 170 (170.10) Grams

7 Ounces 200 (198.45) Grams
8 Ounces 230 (226.80) Grams

9 Ounces 260 (255.15) Grams
10 Ounces 280 (283.50) Grams

11 Ounces 310 (312.85) Grams
12 Ounces 340 (340.20) Grams

13 Ounces 370 (368.55) Grams
14 Ounces 390 (390.90) Grams

15 Ounces 420 (425.25) Grams
16 Ounces 1 Lb 450 (453.59) Grams

35 Ounces (Approx) 2.2 Lbs 1 Kg (1000 Grams