In Burma, ? – 20ᵗʰ century (UN 1955), a unit of liquid capacity, = 8 byee, approximately 4.040 liters.
Simmonds (1892, page 467), says the kwai is 2 imperial pecks; Ireland gives “9 hkwai” to the [imperial] bushel.
Alleyne Ireland.
The Province of Burma. A Report Prepared on Behalf of the University of
Chicago.
Cambridge (MA): Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1907.
Page 842.
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