A ''Cuo'' () in China or ''sai'' in Japan is a unit of volume measurement.
[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/撮]
One ''cuo'' equals 1⁄1000 ''
sheng''.
It is 1 mL (
millilitres) in China
and 1.804 mL in Japan.
The word ''cuo'' () means (a) to pick up (e.g., salt) using one's fingertips, or (b) the small amount of something that can be picked up in this way.
China
Japan
Volume
For more details, please see
Sheng (volume)
The Chinese sheng ( zh, c=升, p=shēng), called sho in Japan and seung in Korea, also called Chinese liter, is a traditional unit of volume in East Asia. It originated from China and was later adapted by Japan, the Korean Peninsula, Vietnam and o ...
See also
*
Chinese units of measurement
Chinese units of measurement, known in Chinese as the ''shìzhì'' ("market system"), are the traditional units of measurement of the Han Chinese. Although Chinese numerals have been decimal (base-10) since the Shang dynasty, Shang, several Chine ...
*
Japanese units of measurement
Traditional Japanese units of measurement or the shakkanhō () is the customary units, traditional system of measurement used by the people of the Japanese archipelago. It is largely based on the Chinese units of measurement, Chinese system, whic ...
*
:zh:中國度量衡
References
{{reflist
Units of volume
Customary units of measurement