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Vietnamese units of measurement (Vietnamese: hệ đo lường Việt Nam) are the largely decimal units of measurement traditionally used in Vietnam until metrication. The base unit of length is the thước ( chữ Nôm : 𡱩 ; lit. "ruler") or xích ( chữ Hán : 尺 ).
The origins of the customary units of measurement in South Asia are varied. As in Europe, there were various local systems of everyday measurements of length , mass and dry volume (the latter being a de facto measure of mass for many staple grains), while gold , pearls and gemstones were weighed on a different, slightly more standardized scale.
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The most common government measure was the Kuping (庫平; kùpíng; 'treasury standard') tael, weighing 37.5 grams (1.21 ozt). A common commercial weight, the Caoping ( 漕平 ; cáopíng ; 'canal shipping standard') tael weighed 36.7 grams (1.18 ozt) of marginally less pure silver.
The Chinese volume units listed in the "Chinese Name Plan for Unified Metric Units of Measurement" of the People's Republic of China in 1959 are Chinese dan, dou, sheng, and ge. The basic unit remains sheng , and one sheng is equal to one liter.
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Traditional Burmese units of measurement are used in Burma, with partial transition to the metric system. U.S. units are used in limited contexts in Canada due to the large volume of trade with the U.S. There is also considerable use of imperial weights and measures, despite de jure Canadian conversion to metric.