Quoted from Frippertron:I weigh a lot more than my wife thinks I do. Luckily she's from Taiwan, so the conversion screws her up.
I know what you mean brother, my wife doesn't do fractions or decimals. She thinks I weigh 5 picul, while clearly. I tip in at 5.5.
Taiwanese units of measurement (Chinese: 臺制; pinyin: Táizhì; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tâi-chè) are the customary and traditional units of measureused in Taiwan. Many of the units derive from Japanese units of measurement and have similar names as Chinese units of measurementbut different conversions than in mainland China or Hong Kong. In some cases these units are used exclusively, in some cases alongside official metric (SI) units, and in other cases they have been supplanted by metric units. Linguistically, practically all Taiwanese units of measure are Chinese classifiers used to classify nouns.
1 cash (Chinese: 釐; pinyin: lí; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lî) = 37.5 mg
1 candareen (分; fēn; hun) = 10 cash = 375 mg
1 mace (錢; qián; chîⁿ) = 10 candareens = 3.75 g
1 tael (兩; liǎng; niú) = 10 mace = 37.5 g
1 catty (斤; jīn; kin/kun) = 16 taels = 0.6 kg
1 picul (擔; dān; tàⁿ) = 100 catties = 60 kg