An East Indian Weight of 1 1/3 pounds.

Chinese unit of weight; approx. 1.33 lb/0.7 kg

any of various units of weight used in southeastern Asia (especially a Chinese measure equal to 500 grams)

Chinese unit of measure weighing more than one pound.

a pound of tea

Catty is the English word for a traditional Chinese measurement of weight called a jīn (Chinese characters: 斤) in Mandarin Chinese or kan (斤) in Cantonese language used across East Asia, commonly found in wet markets and in supermarkets in Taiwan and Hong Kong. The term catty originated from Malaya where it is equivalent to 604.79 grams (or 1 1/3 pounds avoirdupois), it is also used in Taiwan (600 grams), Hong Kong (604.8982 grams), Thailand (600 grams), and China (500 grams). In Japanese kin, in Minnan kin or kun, and in Malay it is kati.