Jin is the pinyin romanization. In Wade-Giles it is chin. Also romanized as kin and tsin. The traditional character is 觔. Among Europeans this unit was often referred to as a catty.
In China, since 1959, a unit of mass in the market system
(shì zhì), = 500 grams. 
United Nations, 1966.
The gong jin, a unit of mass in the standardized metric system (gong zhì) = 1 kilogram, and the gong dan = 100 kilograms.
A 1936 survey found 36 different values in use, ranging from 0.3 to 2.5 kilograms.2
2. Witold Kuta, page 284
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