Convert Catties to Slugs
Convert Catties (catty) to Slugs (slug) instantly and accurately.
Conversion Formula
slug = catty × 0.04138714658
About Catties
The catty (also jin 斤 in Chinese) is a traditional unit of mass used across East and Southeast Asia, equal to 600 grams in its modern metric form. It was historically the standard unit of trade for goods at markets throughout China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia for over a thousand years. Today the catty remains widely used in Chinese, Vietnamese, Malaysian, and Singaporean wet markets and grocery stores for weighing vegetables, meat, and fish. In Hong Kong, the catty (斤) is precisely 604.79 grams; in mainland China it is exactly 500 grams (half a kilogram).
About Slugs
A slug is a unit of mass in the British imperial and US customary foot-pound-second (FPS) engineering system, equal to the mass that accelerates at 1 foot per second squared under a force of 1 pound-force - approximately 14.594 kg. The slug was introduced to simplify dynamics calculations in engineering: using slugs ensures that F = ma holds without unit conversion factors when force is in pounds-force and acceleration in ft/s². Aerospace engineers and mechanical engineers working in US customary units use slugs for aircraft mass, structural dynamics, and ballistic calculations.
Quick Reference Table
| Catties (catty) | Slugs (slug) |
|---|---|
| 1 catty | 0.0413871 slug |
| 2 catty | 0.0827743 slug |
| 5 catty | 0.206936 slug |
| 10 catty | 0.413871 slug |
| 25 catty | 1.03468 slug |
| 50 catty | 2.06936 slug |
| 100 catty | 4.13871 slug |