US Cups to Charkas (cup to charka)
1 US cup equals 1.923573867 charkas (rounded).
How to convert US cups to charkas
To convert US cups to charkas, multiply the number of US cups by 1.923573867. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply charkas by 0.5198656612 (rounded).
charkas = US cups × 1.923573867
Example: 10 US cups = 19.23573867 charkas.
Pints, quarts, gallons and fluid ounces differ between the US and the UK. Units are labeled 'US' or 'imperial' to avoid confusion.
Approximate value. Standards for the charka varied by place and period, so this converter uses the most commonly cited value. Treat results as estimates, not exact figures.
About these units
US Cup (cup)
One sixteenth of a US gallon, 236.588 mL (8 US fluid ounces). The standard US recipe cup.
Cups began as household drinking vessels, not scientific units, which is why they remain the messiest measures in the kitchen. The US customary cup was defined by slicing up the gallon: half a pint, or eight US fluid ounces, about 236.6 milliliters. Unlike the larger units, nobody ever fixed it to a physical vessel, so it exists only as a fraction of the gallon.
The customary cup is not the only American cup. For nutrition labels, US regulation defines a cup as exactly 240 milliliters, a rounder figure that sits slightly above the customary size. Packaged foods therefore list a serving in the legal cup while a measuring cup from the hardware store follows the customary definition. The gap is 3.4 milliliters, which hardly matters for soup but can matter in baking. Cup measures also hide the weight of dry ingredients, since a cup of sifted flour and a cup of packed flour differ substantially, which is why much of the world prefers grams.
1 US cup = 0.2365882365 liters (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Cup (unit); NIST SP 811, Appendix B.8: conversion factors for volume; 21 CFR 101.9: nutrition labeling household measures
Charka (charka)
One hundredth of a vedro, about 123 mL. The traditional Russian shot of vodka.
Charka is a Russian word for a small drinking cup, and the Russian Wikipedia article says the word reached Russian from Turkish. Ornate silver and enamelled charkas for strong spirits were part of everyday Russian life in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the oldest example in the Kremlin Armory dates from 1515.
As a measure, the charka was one hundredth of a vedro, or 7.5 cubic inches, which comes to about 123 mL. It sat in a chain of small liquor measures: half a charka was a shkalik of about 61.5 mL, two charkas made a chetushka of about 246 mL, and ten made a kruzhka of about 1.23 L. The English Wikipedia table of Russian units uses these same fractions of the vedro.
Russia fixed these measures relative to English cubic inches under Peter the Great, so the charka is a precise figure on paper even if real cups varied. The metric system replaced it in the 1920s, yet the word survives as the normal Russian name for a shot glass, and a charka is still close to a double shot today.
1 charka = 0.1229941 liters (approximately).
Sources: Wikipedia: Obsolete Russian units of measurement; Russian Wikipedia: Чарка
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