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"Picul"
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tam
A commercial weight varying in different countries and for different commodities. In Borneo it is 1355/8 lbs.; in China and Sumatra, 133½ lbs.; in Japan, 133 1/3 lbs.; but sometimes 130 lbs., etc. Called also, by the Chinese, tan.
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a unit of weight used in some parts of Asia; approximately equal to 133 pounds (the load a grown man can carry)
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Picul is the English word for a traditional Chinese measurement of weight called dà n (擔) in Mandarin Chinese or tam (擔) in Cantonese language.
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