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	Catty can also refer to Catasauqua, Pennsylvania Catasauqua, Pennsylvania Catasauqua is a borough in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, settled in 1805 and chartered as a borough in 1853. Catasauqua is a suburb of Allentown, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of the state.... . Catty is the English word for a traditional Chinese unit of mass Mass In physical science, mass refers to the degree of acceleration a body acquires when subject to a force: bodies with greater mass are accelerated less by the same force.... called a jin (Chinese characters: ?) in Mandarin Chinese Mandarin (linguistics) Mandarin , is a category of related Chinese dialects spoken across most of northern and south-western China. When taken as a separate language, as is often done in academic literature, the Mandarin language has more native speakers than any other language.... (or gan in Cantonese, kin or kun in Minnan and kin in Japanese Japanese language IPA: [n?iho?go] is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is related to the Ryukyuan languages.... ) used across East Asia East Asia East Asia is a subregion of Asia that can be defined in either Geography or cultural terms. Geography and geopolitically, it covers about 12,000,000 km?, or about 28 percent of the Asian continent, about 15 percent bigger than the area of Europe, though some categorize Tibet, Xinjiang, and Mongolia as Central Asia.... , commonly found in wet market Wet market A wet market is generally an open food market. Some of the common names include "Cultural Markets", "traditional markets", "Gaai Si", "Gaai See".... s and in supermarket Supermarket A supermarket is a self-service Retailing#Retail types offering a wide variety of food and household merchandise, organized into departments.... s. The English word catty originated from Malay Malay language The Malay language is an Austronesian languages spoken by the Malays and people of other ethnic groups who reside in Peninsular Malaysia, southern Thailand, Singapore, central eastern Sumatra, the Riau Islands and parts of the coast of Borneo.... word kati. The catty is traditionally equivalent to around 1? pounds Pound (mass) The pound or pound-mass is a Units of measurement of massused in the Imperial unit, United States customary units and other systems of measurement.... avoirdupois Avoirdupois The avoirdupois system is a system of Units of measurement based on a pound of sixteen ounces. It is the everyday system of weight used in the United States.... , formalised as 604.78982 grammes in Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south.... , 604.79 grammes in Malaysia Malaysia Malaysia is a federation that consists of States of Malaysia in Southeast Asia with a total landmass of . The capital city is Kuala Lumpur, while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government.... and 604.8 grammes in Singapore Singapore Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country microstate located at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula. It lies 137 kilometres north of the equator, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of Indonesia's Riau Islands.... . In some countries, the weight has been rounded to 600 grammes (Taiwan Taiwan Taiwan is an island in East Asia. "Taiwan" is also commonly used to refer to the country governed by the Republic of China and to the ROC itself, which governs the island of Taiwan, Orchid Island and Green Island, Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean off the Taiwan coast, the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and the Matsu Islands... and Thailand Thailand The Kingdom of Thailand is an independent country that lies in the heart of Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Laos and Myanmar, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and Myanmar.... ). In mainland China Mainland China Mainland China, Continental China, the Chinese mainland or simply the mainland, is a geopolitical term refers to the area under the jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China , excluding Hong Kong and Macau, which run on One Country, Two Systems.... , the catty has been rounded to 500 grammes and is referred to as the market catty (?? shijin) in order to distinguish it from the public catty (?? gongjin), or kilogram Kilogram The kilogram or kilogrammeThe spelling kilogram is used by the International Committee for Weights and Measures and the U.S.... . Related weights A picul Picul Picul is the English word for a traditional Chinese measurement of weight called d?n in Mandarin or tam in Cantonese language.One picul is 100 catty.... (Malay: pikul, Chinese: ? (Mandarin: dàn, Cantonese: tam)) is equal to 100 catties. A tael Tael Tael can refer to any one of several weight units of measurement of the Far East. Most commonly, it refers to the China tael , a part of the Chinese units of measurement of weights and currency .... (Malay: tahil, Chinese: ? (Mandarin: liang, Cantonese leung, Minnan niu or nio•)) is the English term for 1/16 of a catty. A stone Stone (Chinese mass) Stone is the English name of the Chinese unit of mass which is called the shek in Cantonese language. One stone equals 120 catty.In Hong Kong, one stone equals 72.5747784 kilograms, and according to Ordinance 22 of 1884, it is equivalent to 160 avoirdupois pounds.... (Chinese: ? (Cantonese: shek)) is the English term for 120 catty. See also Chinese units of measurement Chinese units of measurement File:Classicchineseinstrumentscale.jpgChinese units of measurement are the customary and traditional Units of measurements of measure used in the People's Republic of China.... Taiwanese units of measurement Taiwanese units of measurement Taiwanese units of measurement are the customary and traditional Units of measurement used in Taiwan. Many of the units derive from Japanese units of measurement and have similar names as Chinese units of measurement but different conversions than in China or Hong Kong.... Japanese units of measurement Japanese units of measurement is the traditional Japanese Systems of measurement. The name shakkanho originates from the name of two of the Units of measurement, the shaku, a unit of length, and the kan, a mass measurement.... Caddy (disambiguation) Caddy (disambiguation) Caddy or Caddie usually means caddy, a person who carries a golfer's bag of clubs, and/or selects a club for a golfer, and always must know all the rules and regulations of golf, and must be able to give the golfer in question advice on what club to use, and or what to do in any situation.... Tea caddy Tea caddy A tea caddy is a box, jar, canister or other receptacle for tea.The word is believed to be derived from catty, the Chinese pound, equal to about a pound and a third avoirdupois....