Milliliters to Tō (mL to tō)

1 milliliter equals 0.00005543523532 tō (rounded).

1 milliliter = 0.00005543523532 tō

How to convert milliliters to tō

To convert milliliters to tō, multiply the number of milliliters by 0.00005543523532. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply tō by 18,039.06837 (rounded).

tō = milliliters × 0.00005543523532

Example: 10 milliliters = 0.0005543523532 tō.

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

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

Tō (tō)

JapaneseTraditional unit (still used in some regions)

Ten shō, about 18.039 L.

With ten shō to the tō, this is the largest of the three grain and liquor measures of the Japanese system, equal to 24,010/1331 L, about 18.04 L, the figure used here. That is close to 4.77 US gallons, enough to fill a large barrel-sized pail.

It sits at the top of a chain that runs 10 gō to 1 shō and 10 shō to 1 tō, a purely decimal ladder, unlike many traditional systems.

Japan's 1891 law fixed the measure exactly by tying it to the new Kyoto masu standard. That standard dated from the Edo period, when the shogunate chose the new Kyoto masu in 1669, and the law simply converted it to metric terms. The tō lost legal status in trade after the 1959 Measurement Act.

1 tō = 18.03906837 liters (approximately).

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

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