See also ts'un.
In China, a unit of length equal to 1.41 inches, one of the so-called “treaty standards,” whose values were set by a series of treaties (1842–1844 and 1858–1860) imposed on China by Britain and France, and used thereafter by the Chinese maritime customs (though not elsewhere in the country).
United Nations, 1966.
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