Square Feet to Mu (Chinese) (ft² to mu)
1 square foot equals 0.00013935456 mu (Chinese) exactly.
How to convert square feet to mu (Chinese)
To convert square feet to mu (Chinese), multiply the number of square feet by 0.00013935456. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply mu (Chinese) by 7,175.940278 (rounded).
mu (Chinese) = square feet × 0.00013935456
Example: 10 square feet = 0.0013935456 mu (Chinese).
About these units
Square Foot (ft²)
Exactly 0.09290304 m². The standard unit for floor areas and real estate in the US, UK and India.
Feet came first, and they were not all the same length. As a body-based unit, the foot ranged historically between about 250 and 335 millimeters, with ancient Greek and Roman feet near 300 mm. In medieval England a statute foot was set at 10/11 of an older Belgic foot, and Charlemagne's attempt around 790 to standardize units largely failed. The square foot is simply that length squared, so its size changed along with the foot.
The 1959 international agreement fixed the foot at exactly 0.3048 meter, so one square foot is exactly 0.09290304 m², or 144 square inches. The United Kingdom adopted the new foot in 1964. Today the square foot is the usual way of listing property in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, India, Pakistan, Singapore and Hong Kong, although the measuring convention varies: agents may measure corner to corner, subtract unheated space, or add heated space that extends beyond the end-to-end measurement. The world's smallest park has been reported at 2.6 sq ft.
1 square foot = 0.09290304 square meters (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Square foot; Wikipedia: Foot (unit); NIST Guide to the SI, Appendix B.8: conversion factors
Mu (Chinese) (mu)
Exactly 10,000/15 m² (666.67 m²), one fifteenth of a hectare. The standard unit of farmland in China.
A mu was once a plot defined by a square count of bu, the double pace used as a surveying step. Han-era writers recalled that in earlier times 100 square bu made a mu, while in their own day 240 were needed, and calculations from Han rulers give a mu of roughly 461 m². The size kept shifting. The 1915 Beiyang government law defined it as 60 square zhang, about 614.4 m².
The Republic's 1930 market system settled on 1/15 of a hectare, which is the 666.67 m² used here, and the mu is the only traditional Chinese area unit that survived the 1959 State Council decree. Farmland statistics in China are still given in mu, so that 15 mu make one hectare and 1,500 mu a square kilometre. Hong Kong and Macau use a mou of about 761.4 m², while Taiwan and Japan use a unit of about 99.17 m². The idiom of one mu and three fen of land describes a person's small personal patch.
1 mu (Chinese) = 666.6666667 square meters (approximately).
Sources: Wikipedia: Mu (unit); Wikipedia: Chinese units of measurement
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