pingfang kung ch'ih

In Taiwan, 20^th century – present, a unit of area = 1 square meter. “Pingfang” means “square,” and “kung” means “official,” “legal,” or in the case of units, “metric.” See kung ch'ih. See also p'ing for a version based on a premetric ch'ih.

This term is in the romanization favored by the government of Taiwan. In the pinyin romanization favored by the government of China, “kung” is “gong”, for example, and a square meter is “pingfang gongchi”.