How many centimeters is 1 inch? How many square meters is a tsubo? Convenient tool to solve unit conversion worries

World is made of "Two Units"?

"This clothes, size is written as 'US 8', but will it fit me?" "I found overseas recipe site, but ingredient is '10 oz'... How many grams?"

Living in Japan, "Metric System (Meter, Gram)" is natural, but looking around the world, there are many countries using "Yard-Pound System (Inch, Pound)" mainly in USA. Now that globalization has progressed, opportunities to face these "unfamiliar units" through Internet and work are increasing drastically.

Searching one by one and hitting calculator... is too inefficient. If you use Jenee's Unit ConverterConvert length, area, weight, volume, temperature, and clothing sizes offline., you can solve these worries instantly.

Unit ConverterConvert length, area, weight, volume, temperature, and clothing sizes offline.

5 Conversion Scenes Useful in Daily Life

1. Fashion / Mail Order (Length / Size)

When buying overseas brand clothes or shoes, size notation is the biggest wall.

Inch: 1 inch = about 2.54cm. Often seen in jeans waist size etc. "30 inches" is about 76cm.
Feet (ft): 1 foot = about 30.48cm. Used for height and length of surfboard. "6 feet" is about 183cm.

2. Cooking / Kitchen (Weight / Capacity)

When using imported foods or overseas recipe sites.

Ounce (oz): There are ounce of weight (about 28.3g) and ounce of liquid volume (fl oz, about 29.6ml).
Pound (lb): 1 pound = about 453g. If you say "1 pound steak" at steak house, it is a huge meat chunk of about 450g.
Cup: This is a pitfall! 1 cup in Japan is 200ml, but 1 cup in USA is about 240ml. If you cook without knowing this difference, cooking will fail.

3. Real Estate / Room Search (Area)

It also supports units unique to Japanese real estate.

Tsubo: 1 tsubo = about 3.3m². Size of 2 tatami mats. "Land of 30 tsubo" can be imaged as about 100m² (about 60 tatami mats).
Jo (Tatami): In real estate advertising rules, 1 jo = 1.62m² or more is defined.

4. Travel / Weather (Temperature)

In USA etc., temperature is expressed in "Fahrenheit".

Fahrenheit (℉): Water freezes at 32℉ and boils at 212℉.
Celsius (℃): Unit familiar in Japan. As a guide, if you "Subtract 30 from Fahrenheit and divide by 2", it becomes rough Celsius. (Example: 80℉ - 30 = 50, ÷ 2 = 25℃. Actually it is about 26.6℃, so close value comes out)

5. Digital Data (Information Amount)

Smartphone traffic and HDD capacity etc.

Bit and Byte: 8bit = 1Byte. Communication speed is "bps (bits per second)", and file size is noted in "Bytes", so it is easy to confuse.
Giga (GB) and Tera (TB): 1TB = 1000GB (or 1024GB).

Do you know Japan's unique "Shakkanho"?

Until it was abolished in Showa 34 (1959), Japan used "Shakkanho" all the time. It is still active in traditional fields and agriculture.

Shaku: Length. About 30.3cm. Used in kimono tailoring and construction sites.
Sun: Length. About 3.03cm. "Issunboushi" was a dwarf of 3cm in height.
Kan: Weight. About 3.75kg. Used to measure lumps of ice and body weight (sumo wrestlers etc.).
Sho: Capacity. About 1.8 liters. Used for rice and sake (Issho-bin) even now.
Go: Capacity. About 180ml. 1 go of rice, 1 go of sake. This is also daily.

Jenee's tool also supports conversion of such old units. When reading period dramas and historical novels, image will be easy to spring if you have it at hand.

Features of Jenee's Unit Conversion Tool

Real-time Conversion

The moment you enter numerical value, conversion results are displayed in all units. There is not even need to press "Convert Button".

Covers Special Units

It also supports specialized units such as "Nautical Mile" and "Carat".

Easy to See on Smartphone

It is designed so that you can check quickly from smartphone the moment you think "How many centimeters is this?" on the go.

Trivia of Conversion: Why is the world not unified?

Actually, in the world of science, it is unified as "SI Unit System (International System of Units)". Meter and kilogram correspond to this. However, due to culture and historical background, old units remain strongly at daily life level.

For example, it is said that the reason why USA does not migrate to metric system is that cost of industry (cost to rewrite all road signs, factory machines, manuals) is too huge. For a while, we seem to need to live in this world of "Double Standard". That is why convenient conversion tools are indispensable.

Summary

Unit is culture of that country itself. Touching "Inch" and "Pound" is also knowing different cultures.

If you understand the meaning, overseas travel and shopping for imported goods will be more fun. If you get lost "How much is this?", please remember Jenee's conversion tool. It should change your "?" to "I see!".