41-567: (Redirected from CHO ) [REDACTED] Look up cho , Cho , or CHO in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cho or CHO may refer to: People [ edit ] Chief Happiness Officer Chief Heat Officer Surnames [ edit ] Cho (Korean surname) , one romanization of the common Korean surname 조 Zhuo ( 卓 ), romanized Cho in Wade–Giles, Chinese surname Cho,
82-1085: A unit of area in Japan approximately 2.449 acres (0.991 ha) Nokia's internal codename for the 6681 mobile phone Codes [ edit ] CHO, the IATA code for Charlottesville–Albemarle Airport in the commonwealth of Virginia, US cho, the ISO 639-2 and -3 code for the Choctaw language as spoken in the US CHO, the National Rail code for Cholsey railway station in the county of Oxfordshire, UK See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "cho" on Misplaced Pages. [REDACTED] The dictionary definition of Appendix: Variations of "cho" at Wiktionary All pages with titles beginning with CHO All pages with titles beginning with Cho All pages with titles containing Cho Topics referred to by
123-790: A unit of area in Japan approximately 2.449 acres (0.991 ha) Nokia's internal codename for the 6681 mobile phone Codes [ edit ] CHO, the IATA code for Charlottesville–Albemarle Airport in the commonwealth of Virginia, US cho, the ISO 639-2 and -3 code for the Choctaw language as spoken in the US CHO, the National Rail code for Cholsey railway station in the county of Oxfordshire, UK See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "cho" on Misplaced Pages. [REDACTED] The dictionary definition of Appendix: Variations of "cho" at Wiktionary All pages with titles beginning with CHO All pages with titles beginning with Cho All pages with titles containing Cho Topics referred to by
164-472: A "marine ri". A fourth and shorter ri of about 600 m is still evident in some beach names. The "99-Ri" beach at Kujukuri is about 60 km. The "7-Ri" beach at Shichiri is 4.2 km long. The traditional units are still used for construction materials in Japan. For example, plywood is usually manufactured in 182 cm × 91 cm (about 72 in × 36 in ) sheets known in the trade as saburokuhan ( 3 × 6版 ) , or 3 × 6 shaku . Each sheet
205-404: A British system; for sizes of magnetic tape and many pieces of computer hardware; for photograph sizes; and for the sizes of electronic displays for electronic devices. Photographic prints, however, are usually rounded to the nearest millimetre and screens are not described in terms of inches but "type" ( 型 , gata ). For instance, a television whose screen has a 17-inch diagonal is described as
246-620: A Minnan romanization of the Chinese surname Cao ( 曹 ) Chō, the romaji for the uncommon Japanese surname derived from the Chinese Zhang ( Kanji 張 ) Cho U (born 1980), Taiwanese go player who romanizes his name in the Japanese fashion Chō (born 1957), Japanese actor and voice actor Fujio Cho (born 1937), Japanese chairman Isamu Chō (1895-1945), Japanese lieutenant general Characters [ edit ] Cho Hakkai ,
287-604: A female name and at the end for male names Rich Cho (born 1965), American basketball executive Ba Cho (1893–1947), Burmese newspaper publisher and politician Characters [ edit ] Cho Chang , a fictional character from the Harry Potter series Nicknames and stagenames [ edit ] Yūichi Nagashima, a Japanese voice actor who goes by the stage name Chō Callum Hudson-Odoi , abbreviated to CHO, an English professional footballer Entertainment [ edit ] Center-hand opponent,
328-550: A female name and at the end for male names Rich Cho (born 1965), American basketball executive Ba Cho (1893–1947), Burmese newspaper publisher and politician Characters [ edit ] Cho Chang , a fictional character from the Harry Potter series Nicknames and stagenames [ edit ] Yūichi Nagashima, a Japanese voice actor who goes by the stage name Chō Callum Hudson-Odoi , abbreviated to CHO, an English professional footballer Entertainment [ edit ] Center-hand opponent,
369-632: A local adaption of the traditional Chinese system , which was adopted at a very early date. They were imposed and adjusted at various times by local and imperial statutes. The details of the system have varied over time and location in Japan's history. Japan signed the Treaty of the Metre in 1885, with its terms taking effect in 1886. It received its prototype metre and kilogram from the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in 1890. The next year,
410-416: A person for a single year, it was used to compute agricultural output and official salaries. The koku of rice was sometimes reckoned as 3000 "sacks". By the 1940s the shipping koku was 1 ⁄ 10 of the shipping ton of 40 or 42 cu ft (i.e., 110–120 L); the koku of timber was about 10 cu ft (280 L); and the koku of fish, like many modern bushels ,
451-672: A public awareness campaign and seeking to accomplish as much of the conversion ahead of schedule as possible. Its first success was the conversion of candy sales in Tokyo department stores from the momme to the gram in September 1956; others followed, with NHK taking the lead in media use. With the majority of the public now exposed to it since childhood, the metric system became the sole legal measurement system in most fields of Japanese life on 1 January 1959. Redrafting of laws to use metric equivalents had already been accomplished, but conversion of
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#1733084860330492-409: A term used in the card game bridge: see Glossary of contract bridge terms Cho (rapper) (born 1993), Dutch rapper "Chō" (Shizuka Kudo song) , 1996 Chō (Tsuki Amano song) Science and mathematics [ edit ] Chinese hamster ovary cell (CHO cell) CHO , a mnemonic used to teach trigonometry , showing that the cosecant of an angle in a triangle is the ratio of the length of
533-409: A term used in the card game bridge: see Glossary of contract bridge terms Cho (rapper) (born 1993), Dutch rapper "Chō" (Shizuka Kudo song) , 1996 Chō (Tsuki Amano song) Science and mathematics [ edit ] Chinese hamster ovary cell (CHO cell) CHO , a mnemonic used to teach trigonometry , showing that the cosecant of an angle in a triangle is the ratio of the length of
574-486: A weights and measurements law codified the Japanese system, taking its fundamental units to be the shaku and kan and deriving the others from them. The law codified the values of the traditional and metric units in terms of one another, but retained the traditional units as the formal standard and metric values as secondary. In 1909, English units were also made legal within the Empire of Japan . Following World War I ,
615-502: Is about the size of one tatami mat. The thicknesses of the sheets, however, are usually measured in millimetres. The names of these units also live in the name of the bamboo flute shakuhachi ( 尺八 ) , literally "shaku eight", which measures one shaku and eight sun , and the Japanese version of the Tom Thumb story, Issun Bōshi ( 一寸法師 ) , literally "one sun boy", as well as in many Japanese proverbs . The base unit of Japanese area
656-446: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages cho [REDACTED] Look up cho , Cho , or CHO in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cho or CHO may refer to: People [ edit ] Chief Happiness Officer Chief Heat Officer Surnames [ edit ] Cho (Korean surname) , one romanization of
697-609: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Japanese units of measurement Traditional Japanese units of measurement or the shakkanhō ( 尺貫法 ) is the traditional system of measurement used by the people of the Japanese archipelago . It is largely based on the Chinese system , which spread to Japan and the rest of the Sinosphere in antiquity. It has remained mostly unaltered since
738-465: Is now much longer than the Chinese or Korean li , comprising 36 chō , 2160 ken , or 12,960 shaku . A still longer unit was formerly standard in Ise on Honshu and throughout the 9 provinces of Kyushu , which comprised 50 chō , 3000 ken , or 18,000 shaku . The imperial nautical mile of 6080 feet (1853.19 m) was also formerly used by the Japanese in maritime contexts as
779-550: Is the tsubo , equivalent to a square ken or 36 square shaku . It is twice the size of the jō , the area of the Nagoya tatami mat. Both units are used informally in discussing real estate floorspace . Due to historical connections , the tsubo is still used as the official base unit of area in Taiwan . In agricultural contexts, the tsubo is known as the bu . The larger units remain in common use by Japanese farmers when discussing
820-467: Is typically abbreviated as mo . The Japanese form of the Chinese tael was the ryō ( 両 ). It was customarily reckoned as around 4 or 10 momme but, because of its importance as a fundamental unit of the silver and gold bullion used as currency in medieval Japan, it varied over time and location from those notional values. Imperial units are sometimes used in Japan. Feet and inches are used for most non-sport bicycles, whose tyre sizes follow
861-566: The Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce established a Committee for Weights and Measures and Industrial Standards, part of whose remit was to investigate which of Japan's three legal systems should be adopted. Upon its advice, the Imperial Diet established the metric system as Japan's legal standard, effective 1 July 1924, with use of the other systems permitted as a transitional measure. The government and "leading industries" were to convert within
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#1733084860330902-520: The gallon and cloth by the yard. The Diet revisited the nation's measurements and, with the occupation's approval, promulgated a Measurements Law in June 1951 that reaffirmed its intention to continue Japan's metrication, effective on the first day of 1959. An unofficial and ad hoc Metric System Promotion Committee was established by interested scholars, public servants, and businessmen in August 1955, undertaking
943-428: The land registries required until 31 March 1966 to complete. Industry transitioned gradually at its own expense, with compliance sometimes being nominal, as in the case of 1 ⁄ 4 - inch (6.35 mm ) screws becoming " 1 ⁄ 4 screws". Since the original fines for noncompliance were around $ 140 and governmental agencies mostly preferred to wait for voluntary conversion, metric use by December 1959
984-417: The national census as late as 2005, although the practice was discontinued in 2010. English units continue to be employed in aviation, munitions , and various sports, including golf and baseball . The base unit of Japanese length is the shaku based upon the Chinese chi , with other units derived from it and changing over time based on its dimensions. The chi was originally a span taken from
1025-454: The Japanese name for Zhū Bājiè or "Pigsy", a character in the 16th-century Chinese novel, Journey to the West , by Wu Cheng'en Cho Hakkai (Saiyuki) , the same character in the manga and anime series Saiyuki , based on the novel Given name [ edit ] Cho Ramaswamy (1934-2016), Indian actor and writer Cho, a Burmese given name meaning "sweet" commonly used at the start of
1066-407: The Japanese name for Zhū Bājiè or "Pigsy", a character in the 16th-century Chinese novel, Journey to the West , by Wu Cheng'en Cho Hakkai (Saiyuki) , the same character in the manga and anime series Saiyuki , based on the novel Given name [ edit ] Cho Ramaswamy (1934-2016), Indian actor and writer Cho, a Burmese given name meaning "sweet" commonly used at the start of
1107-574: The adoption of the measures of the Tang dynasty in 701. Following the 1868 Meiji Restoration , Imperial Japan adopted the metric system and defined the traditional units in metric terms on the basis of a prototype metre and kilogram . The present values of most Korean and Taiwanese units of measurement derive from these values as well. For a time in the early 20th century, the traditional, metric, and English systems were all legal in Japan. Although commerce has since been legally restricted to using
1148-565: The common Korean surname 조 Zhuo ( 卓 ), romanized Cho in Wade–Giles, Chinese surname Cho, a Minnan romanization of the Chinese surname Cao ( 曹 ) Chō, the romaji for the uncommon Japanese surname derived from the Chinese Zhang ( Kanji 張 ) Cho U (born 1980), Taiwanese go player who romanizes his name in the Japanese fashion Chō (born 1957), Japanese actor and voice actor Fujio Cho (born 1937), Japanese chairman Isamu Chō (1895-1945), Japanese lieutenant general Characters [ edit ] Cho Hakkai ,
1189-605: The end of the thumb to the tip of an outstretched middle finger, but which gradually increased in length to about 1 ⁄ 3 metre (33 cm ), just a few centimetres longer than the size of a foot . As in China and Korea, Japan employed different shaku for different purposes. The "carpentry" shaku ( 曲尺 , kanejaku ) was used for construction. It was a little longer in the 19th century prior to its metric redefinition. The "cloth" or "whale" shaku ( 鯨尺 , kujirajaku ), named for tailors' and fabric merchants' baleen rulers,
1230-429: The government pushed the deadline for the conversion of the first group of industries to 1939; the rest of the country was given until 1954. Emboldened, the nationalists succeeded in having an Investigating Committee for Weights and Measures Systems established. In 1938, it advised that the government should continue to employ the "Shaku–Kan" system alongside the metric one. The next year, the imperial ordinance concerning
1271-432: The hypotenuse over the length opposite side cubohemioctahedron , in geometry, is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron -CHO, the chemical symbol for an aldehyde Carbohydrate , referencing the three constituent elements, carbon (C), Hydrogen (H) and Oxygen (O) Technology [ edit ] Chō , an ancient Japanese unit of length approximately equal to 109.1 metres (357 ft 11 in) Chō , also used as
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1312-432: The hypotenuse over the length opposite side cubohemioctahedron , in geometry, is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron -CHO, the chemical symbol for an aldehyde Carbohydrate , referencing the three constituent elements, carbon (C), Hydrogen (H) and Oxygen (O) Technology [ edit ] Chō , an ancient Japanese unit of length approximately equal to 109.1 metres (357 ft 11 in) Chō , also used as
1353-490: The metric system, the old system is still used in some instances. The old measures are common in carpentry and agriculture , with tools such as chisels , spatels, saws, and hammers manufactured in sun and bu sizes. Floorspace is expressed in terms of tatami mats , and land is sold on the basis of price in tsubo . Sake is sold in multiples of 1 gō , with the most common bottle sizes being 4 (720 mL) or 10 (1.8 L, isshōbin ). Customary Japanese units are
1394-567: The next decade, with others following in the decade after that. Public education —at the time compulsory through primary school—began to teach the metric system. Governmental agencies and the Japanese Weights and Measures Association undertook a gradual course of education and conversion but opposition became vehemently outspoken in the early 1930s. Nationalists decried the "foreign" system as harmful to Japanese pride, language, and culture, as well as restrictive to international trade. In 1933,
1435-605: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Cho . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cho&oldid=1249874939 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with given-name-holder lists Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Articles containing Korean-language text Articles containing Chinese-language text Short description
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1517-428: The sizes of fields. The base unit of Japanese volume is the shō , although the gō now sees more use since it is reckoned as the appropriate size of a serving of rice or sake . Sake and shochu are both commonly sold in large 1800 mL bottles known as isshōbin ( 一升瓶 ) , literally "one shō bottle". The koku is historically important: since it was reckoned as the amount of rice necessary to feed
1558-462: The transition to the metric system was formally revised, indefinitely exempting real estate and historical objects and treasures from any need for metric conversion. The deadline for compulsory conversion in all other fields was moved back to 31 December 1958. Following its defeat in World War II , Japan was occupied by America and saw an expanded use of US customary units . Gasoline was sold by
1599-447: Was 1 ⁄ 4 longer and used in measuring cloth. (A longer unit of about 25 cloth shaku was the tan .) Traditional Japanese clothing was reckoned using the "traditional clothing" shaku ( 呉服尺 , gofukujaku ), about 1 ⁄ 5 longer than the carpentry shaku . The Shōsōin in Nara has ivory 1- shaku rulers, the kōgebachiru-no-shaku ( 紅牙撥鏤尺 ) . The Japanese ri
1640-472: Was estimated at only 85%. Since research showed that individual Japanese did not intend to actually use the metric units when given other options, however, sale and verification of devices marked with non-metric units (such as rulers and tape measures noting shaku and sun ) were criminalised after 1961. Some use of the traditional units continues. Some Japanese describe their weight in terms of kan . Homes continue to be reckoned in terms of tsubo , even on
1681-401: Was no longer reckoned by volume but computed by weight (40 kan ). The shakujime of timber was about 12 cu ft (340 L) and the taba about 108 ft³ (3,100 L or 3.1 m ). The base unit of Japanese mass is the kan , although the momme is more common. It is a recognised unit in the international pearl industry. In English-speaking countries, momme