Gō to Milliliters (gō to mL)

1 gō equals 180.3906837 milliliters (rounded).

1 gō = 180.3906837 milliliters

How to convert gō to milliliters

To convert gō to milliliters, multiply the number of gō by 180.3906837. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply milliliters by 0.005543523532 (rounded).

milliliters = gō × 180.3906837

Example: 10 gō = 1,803.906837 milliliters.

Pints, quarts, gallons and fluid ounces differ between the US and the UK. Units are labeled 'US' or 'imperial' to avoid confusion.

About these units

Gō (gō)

JapaneseTraditional unit (still used in some regions)

A tenth of a shō, about 180.39 mL. Rice is still sold and cooked by the gō.

Gō is the smallest of the everyday Japanese dry and liquid measures, one tenth of a shō. Its exact size under the 1891 law is 2401/13,310 L, about 180.4 mL, matching the figure used here.

Rice is the unit's natural home. A gō is regarded as an appropriate serving of rice or sake, and electric rice cookers sold in Japan come with a measuring cup of exactly this size, so recipes still call for rice by the gō.

Since the 1959 Measurement Act the gō has had no legal standing in trade, but the cup survives in kitchens. Compared with a US cup of about 237 mL, it is a noticeably smaller measure, which is worth remembering when converting rice recipes.

1 gō = 0.1803906837 liters (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Japanese units of measurement; Japanese Wikipedia: Sho

Milliliter (mL)

Metric (SI)Current unit

One thousandth of a liter, or exactly 1 cubic centimeter. Used for medicine, cooking and small containers.

Milliliters inherit everything from the liter, since the prefix simply means one thousandth. Because the liter is a cubic decimeter, a milliliter works out to exactly one cubic centimeter, a coincidence the metric system built in on purpose so that volume, length and mass interlock. One milliliter of water has a mass of about one gram, so a dosing syringe, a kitchen scale and a measuring jug can all be checked against one another.

Today milliliters dominate wherever small amounts must be measured precisely: medicine, flavorings, perfume, shampoo and the fine print on drink labels. Spelling is a mild regional split, with uppercase mL preferred in the United States, Canada and Australia and lowercase ml common in the UK and Europe. For scale, a US teaspoon is just under 5 mL, a US tablespoon is about 14.8 mL, and the US nutrition-label cup is exactly 240 mL, so one such cup is 240 of these tiny units.

1 milliliter = 0.001 liters (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Litre; NIST SP 811, Appendix B.8: conversion factors for volume; 21 CFR 101.9: nutrition labeling household measures

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