Grams to Liang (Chinese) (g to liang)

1 gram equals 0.02 liang (Chinese) exactly.

1 gram = 0.02 liang (Chinese)

How to convert grams to liang (Chinese)

To convert grams to liang (Chinese), multiply the number of grams by 0.02. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply liang (Chinese) by 50.

liang (Chinese) = grams × 0.02

Example: 10 grams = 0.2 liang (Chinese).

About these units

Gram (g)

Metric (SI)Current unit

One thousandth of a kilogram. The standard unit for food quantities and small objects.

A gram was once defined as a small drop of the natural world. The French National Convention of 1795 set it as the absolute weight of a volume of pure water equal to a cube one hundredth of a metre on each side, a cubic centimetre. The reference temperature was first the melting point of ice and was later changed to the temperature of maximum density of water, about 4 degrees Celsius. The word came into French as gramme, from Late Latin gramma, itself from the Greek for a letter or small mark; in Late Antiquity it meant about one twenty-fourth of an ounce.

The gram was the base unit of mass in the centimetre-gram-second system, but in 1960 the SI took the kilogram as its base unit, which made the gram one thousandth of it. That is why it appears in so many everyday places: it is the standard for non-liquid ingredients in cooking and shopping, and nutrition labels commonly list contents per 100 g. For a sense of scale, a small paper clip or a pen cap weighs about a gram, and a Japanese 1-yen coin is close to exactly that, while a US penny is around 2.5 g.

1 gram = 0.001 kilograms (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Gram; Wikipedia: Kilogram

Liang (Chinese) (liang)

ChineseTraditional unit (still used in some regions)

Exactly 50 g in the modern Chinese market system, called the tael in English; one tenth of the modern jin (it was a sixteenth of the old jin).

English speakers know this unit as the tael, a word that came through Portuguese from the Malay tahil, meaning weight. In China the liang measured gold, silver and medicines, and it doubled as a unit of money when a liang of silver served as a unit of account. Foreign trade at Canton and Hong Kong carried the term around the world, and the name is still used for bullion weights.

For most of Chinese history the liang was one sixteenth of a jin, which is why people still speak of half a jin being eight liang in older sources. The Republic kept that ratio from 1930 with a liang of 31.25 g, but the People's Republic changed it in 1959 to one tenth of a jin. The figure used here is that mainland value of 50 g. Hong Kong's tael is about 37.8 g, while Taiwan uses 37.5 g.

1 liang (Chinese) = 0.05 kilograms (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Tael; Wikipedia: Jin (unit); Wikipedia: Chinese units of measurement

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