Ke (unit) 刻
(重定向自Centiday)
The ke (Chinese:刻; pinyin:kè) is a time unit in traditional China. The ke is the extension of the scale on the sundial or the rule of the water clock. In French decimal time, ke is equivalent to 10 decimal minutes, sometimes called a décime.
The major ke is 14.4 minutes (14 minutes 24 seconds), which is the time between two centiday scales, and the minor ke is 2.4 minutes (2 minutes 24 seconds), which is the common factor time between centiday scale and shi scale. It was customary to subdivide the minor ke into 10 fen (Chinese:分; pinyin:fēn), just as cun and mace; thus the major ke is divided into 60 fen.