Taiwanese units of measurement | Taiwan land area
FromWikipedia,thefreeencyclopediaSystemofmeasurementusedinTaiwanTaiwaneseunitsofmeasurement(Chinese:臺制,TaiwaneseHokkien:Tâi-chè,Hakka:Thòi-chṳ,Mandarin:Táizhì)arethecustomaryandtraditionalunitsofmeasureusedinTaiwan.TheTaiwaneseunitsformedinthe1900swhenTaiwanwasunderJapaneserule.ThesystemmainlyreferstoJapanesesystem.ThemeasurementreferstothetraditionalsizeofaJapaneseflooringmatcalledaTatamimat(madeofwovendriedgrass)whichwerepositionedtocompletelycovertheflooroftraditionalJapanesehomes,there...
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System of measurement used in Taiwan
Taiwanese units of measurement (Chinese: 臺制, Taiwanese Hokkien: Tâi-chè, Hakka: Thòi-chṳ, Mandarin: Táizhì) are the customary and traditional units of measure used in Taiwan. The Taiwanese units formed in the 1900s when Taiwan was under Japanese rule. The system mainly refers to Japanese system. The measurement refers to the traditional size of a Japanese flooring mat called a Tatami mat (made of woven dried grass) which were positioned to completely cover the floor of traditional Japanese homes, therefore it became a convenient measurement tool as mat area was standardised hundreds of years ago. In Taiwan the measurement units are pronounced in Taiwanese Hokkien and Hakka before the World War II and adopted by the Mandarin speaking immigrants from China in 1949. Today, the Taiwanese units are used exclusively, in some cases alongside official SI units, and in other cases the...