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Myanmar units of measurement

Myanmar units of measurement

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The traditional Burmese units of measurement are still in everyday use in Myanmar (also known as Burma). According to the CIA Factbook, Myanmar is one of three countries that have not adopted the International System of Units (SI) metric system as their official system of weights and measures.[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] and in October 2013, Dr. Pwint San, Deputy Minister for Commerce, announced that the country was preparing to adopt the metric system.[3]
Most of the nation uses Burmese units only, although Burmese government web pages in English use imperial and metric units inconsistently. For instance, the Ministry of Construction uses miles to describe the length of roads[4] and square feet for the size of houses,[5] but square kilometres for the total land area of new town developments in Yangon City.[5] The Ministry of Agriculture uses acres for land areas.[6] The Ministry of Foreign Affairs uses kilometres (with mile equivalents in parentheses) to describe the dimensions of the country.[7]

Contents

Length

Table of length units
Unit Metric Imperial/US Ratio to
previous
Burmese Romanized
ဆံခြည် sanchi 79.375 µm ​3 1⁄8 thou/mil
နှမ်း hnan 0.79375 mm ​31 1⁄4 thou/mil 10
မုယော mayaw 4.7625 mm ​3⁄16 in 6
လက်သစ် let thit 1.905 cm ​3⁄4 in; one digit 4
မိုက် maik 15.24 cm 6 in; one shaftment 8
ထွာ htwa 22.86 cm 9 in; one span 1.5
တောင် taung 45.72 cm ​1 1⁄2 ft; one cubit 2
လံ lan 1.8288 m 6 ft; one fathom 4
တာ ta 3.2004 m ​10 1⁄2 ft 1.75
ဥသဘ out-thaba
(from Pali usaba)		 64.008 m 70 yd 20
ကောသ kawtha
(from Pali kosa)		 1.28016 km 0.795455 mi 20
ဂါဝုတ် ga-wout
(from Pali gavuta)		 5.12064 km 3.18182 mi; about one league 4
ယူဇနာ yuzana
(from Pali yojana)		 20.48256 km 12.7273 mi 4

Mass

Table of mass units
Unit Metric Imperial/US Ratio to
previous
Burmese Romanized
ရွဲလေး yway lay 136.078 mg 2.1 grain
ရွဲကြီး yway gyi 272.155 mg 4.2 grain 2
ပဲသား petha 1.02058 g 15.75 grain 3.75
မူးသား mutha 2.04117 g 31.5 grain 2
မတ်သား mattha 4.08233 g 63 grain 2
ငါးမူးသား nga mutha[N 1] 8.16466 g 0.288 oz 2
ကျပ်သား kyattha[N 2] 16.3293 g 0.576 oz 2
အဝက်သား awettha 204.117 g 7.2 oz 12.5
အစိတ်သား aseittha 408.233 g 14.4 oz 2
ငါးဆယ်သား ngase tha 816.466 g 1.8 lb 2
၁ပိဿာ peittha[N 3] 1.63293 kg 3.6 lb 2
အချိန်တစ်ရာ achein taya 163.293 kg 360 lb 100

  • Literally "five mutha", but in fact it is only four.

  • Traditionally known as a tical in English.

    1. Traditionally known as a viss in English.

    Volume

    Table of volume units
    Unit Metric Imperial US Ratio to
    previous
    Burmese Romanized
    လမြူ la myu 79.9118 ml ​2 13⁄16 fl oz 2.70214 fl oz
    လမျက် la myet 159.824 ml ​5 5⁄8 fl oz 5.40428 fl oz 2
    လမယ် la me 319.647 ml ​11 1⁄4 fl oz 10.8086 fl oz 2
    စလယ် sa le 639.294 ml ​1 1⁄8 pints 1.35107 pints 2
    ခွက် hkwet 1.27859 l ​1 1⁄8 qt 1.35107 qt 2
    ပြည် pyi 2.55718 l ​2 1⁄4 qt 2.70214 qt 2
    စိတ် seit 10.2287 l ​2 1⁄4 gallons
    ​1 1⁄8 pecks    		 2.70214 gallons
    1.16106 pecks    		 4
    ခွဲ hkwe 20.4574 l ​4 1⁄2 gallons
    ​2 1⁄4 pecks    		 5.40428 gallons
    2.32213 pecks    		 2
    တင်း tin 40.9148 l 9 gallons
    ​1 1⁄8 bushels    		 10.8086 gallons
    1.16107 bushels    		 2

    Money

    Table of money units
    Unit Equivalent to
    Burmese Romanized
    ၁ျပား 1 pya  
    မတ္ 1 mat 25 pya
    ငါးမူး 5 mu 2 mat
    ၁က်ပ္ 1 kyat 10 mu

    Adoption of SI (metric) system

    In October 2013, the Ministry of Commerce announced that Myanmar was preparing to adopt the International System of Units (SI System) as the country's official system of measurement.[3]
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