Liters to Gō (L to gō)

1 liter equals 5.543523532 gō (rounded).

1 liter = 5.543523532 gō

How to convert liters to gō

To convert liters to gō, multiply the number of liters by 5.543523532. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply gō by 0.1803906837 (rounded).

gō = liters × 5.543523532

Example: 10 liters = 55.43523532 gō.

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

Liter (L)

Metric (SI)Current unit

One cubic decimeter (1,000 cm³). The everyday metric unit of volume for drinks, fuel and cooking.

The liter was born in revolutionary France. In 1795 it was introduced as a republican unit and defined as one cubic decimeter, while the gram was tied to a cubic centimeter of water. The name comes from the older French litron, itself descended from a Byzantine Greek unit of weight, not volume. A small revision of the decimeter in 1798 left the first liter about 1.000974 of today's cubic decimeter, and in 1879 the international metric authorities adopted the liter with the symbol l.

The liter then took a strange detour. In 1901 it was redefined as the space taken up by one kilogram of pure water at its densest, which made it about 1.000028 cubic decimeters, and that muddled definition lasted until 1964, when it was restored to exactly one cubic decimeter. A capital L was added as an alternative symbol in 1979 because a lowercase l is easy to mistake for the digit 1, and NIST says L is the symbol to use in the United States. A liter of water is close to a kilogram, which is why a one-liter bottle feels like a kilo in the hand.

The liter is the reference unit for volume on this site.

Sources: Wikipedia: Litre; NIST Guide to the SI, Chapter 5: units outside the SI

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

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