Imperial units commonly used units for length are (li), (tseung/cheung), (tsek/chek), (tsun/chun), (fen/fan) in descending scale order. These units are now rarely used in daily life, the imperial and metric systems being preferred. The imperial equivalents are written with the same basic Chinese characters as the Chinese system. In order to distinguish between the units of the two systems, the units can be prefixed with "Ying" () for the Imperial system and "Wa" () for the Chinese system. In writing, derived characters are often used, with an additional (mouth) radical to the left of the original Chinese character, for writing imperial units.
Imperial, California high temperature is 67 degrees with a low of 39. In July, the normal high temperature is 105 degrees with a low of 77. Imperial was created by the Imperial Land Company and was named by George Chaffey. The first post office at Imperial opened in 1901. Imperial incorporated in 1904. The first mayor of Imperial was Allison Peck. The town-site of Imperial was plotted in 1902 for home and commercial businesses. A few of the many firsts was a printing press, drug store, grocery store, brick building, and the first church. The City can also boast of having the