US Cups to Gō (cup to gō)
1 US cup equals 1.311532456 gō (rounded).
How to convert US cups to gō
To convert US cups to gō, multiply the number of US cups by 1.311532456. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply gō by 0.7624668342 (rounded).
gō = US cups × 1.311532456
Example: 10 US cups = 13.11532456 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
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
Gō (gō)
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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