Stones are usually only cut. Quantifier refers to the unit for calculating capacity and weight; The unit of measurement of official salary; A unit for calculating the strength of a crossbow; Dialect.

"Stone" was originally a unit of weight, and one stone was 120 Jin. In ancient times, when it comes to grain, one bucket is a unit of capacity, because the weight of ten buckets of grain is roughly equivalent to one stone, so grain is also regarded as one stone, and one stone is equal to ten buckets. "Stone" was used to represent volume and became a unit of capacity.

Later, because a stone of grain happens to be the weight that a person can bear, a stone is also called a load, but it is still written as "stone"; In this way, the word "stone" has two pronunciations: one is pronounced shí, and the other is pronounced dà n.

Extended data

First of all, people usually use scales to measure the weight of objects. When weighing objects, they have to hang a weight made of stone (later made of iron) at one end of the scale to keep balance at any time. Objects are light and heavy, and the weight can be large or small, which may be the reason why the word "stone" was borrowed as a unit of measurement.

Secondly, Shuowen accepted the word "lying stone", that is, adding the word "lying" to the word "stone" to distinguish it from the stone "stone", but this word has never been popular, and people are still used to borrowing the word "stone" as a unit of measurement.

Baidu encyclopedia-stone