Cun (Chinese) to Yards (cun to yd)

1 cun (Chinese) equals 0.03645377661 yards (rounded).

1 cun (Chinese) = 0.03645377661 yards

How to convert cun (Chinese) to yards

To convert cun (Chinese) to yards, multiply the number of cun (Chinese) by 0.03645377661. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply yards by 27.432.

yards = cun (Chinese) × 0.03645377661

Example: 10 cun (Chinese) = 0.3645377661 yards.

About these units

Cun (Chinese) (cun)

ChineseTraditional unit (still used in some regions)

The Chinese inch, 1/30 m (about 3.33 cm) in the modern market system. Also used in acupuncture, where a 'body cun' is proportional to the patient.

Hand anatomy gave the cun its role. The traditional definition is the width of a person's thumb at the knuckle, and the unit is commonly translated as the Chinese inch. That human scale is the reason acupuncture still uses a body cun, which is proportional to the patient and is not a fixed number of millimeters. Two forefingers side by side are counted as 1.5 cun, and four fingers together as 3 cun.

As a measure of ordinary objects, the cun is one tenth of a chi and ten times a fen. Under the modern market system it equals 10/3 centimeters, roughly 3.33 cm. Hong Kong kept a British-influenced standard in which the cun is about 3.715 cm, and Japan's related sun is about 3.03 cm, so the same character covers several different sizes in different places. The phrase chi cun, literally foot and inch, also became the everyday Chinese word for dimensions.

1 cun (Chinese) = 0.03333333333 meters (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Cun (unit); Wikipedia: Chi (unit)

Yard (yd)

US & ImperialCurrent unit

3 feet or 36 inches, exactly 0.9144 meters. Used for sports fields, fabric and short distances in the US and UK.

Yard descends from the Old English gerd or gyrd, meaning a branch, stave or measuring rod. It first appears in the late seventh-century laws of Ine of Wessex, though there it names a tax unit, the yardland. Around 959 to 963 King Edgar ordered that the measure held at Winchester be used throughout his realm, the earliest record of a prototype. A story that Henry I fixed the yard as the distance from his nose to his thumb is later folklore, and the true origin, whether pace, cubit or waist, remains speculative.

Britain defined the Imperial Standard Yard in 1824 as the distance between two marks on a brass rod at 62 degrees Fahrenheit. A fire in 1834 damaged the standard, a replacement was made in 1845, and the Weights and Measures Act 1855 recognized it. The 1959 international agreement then fixed the yard at exactly 0.9144 meter. Today it measures American and Canadian football fields, association football pitches and cricket pitches, appears on UK road signs for short distances, and is still used to sell fabric in the US and UK.

1 yard = 0.9144 meters (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Yard; Wikipedia: Inch; NIST Guide to the SI, Appendix B.8: conversion factors

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