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| Chinese | 分 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Vietnamese alphabet | phân | ||||||||||||||||||
| Chữ Hán | 分 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Hangul | 푼 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hanja | 分 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Mongolian Cyrillic | пүн | ||||||||||||||||||
| Mongolian script | ᠫᠦᠨ | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Kanji | 分 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hiragana | ふん | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Manchu script | ᡶᡠᠸᡝᠨ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Möllendorff | fuwen | ||||||||||||||||||
Acandareen (/kændəˈriːn/;[1]Chinese:分;pinyin:fēn;Cantonese Yale:fàn;[2]Singapore English usage:hoon[3]) is a traditionalmeasurement of weight inEast Asia. It is equal to 10 cash and is1⁄10 of amace. It is approximately 378milligrams. Atroy candareen is approximately 374 milligrams (5.77 gr).
InHong Kong, one candareen is 0.3779936375grams[2] and, in the Weights and Measures Ordinance, it is2⁄150ouncesavoirdupois. In Singapore, one candareen is 0.377994 grams.[3]
The wordcandareen comes from theMalaykandūri.[1] An earlier English form of the name wascondrin.[1] The candareen was also formerly used to describe a unit ofcurrency in imperialChina equal to 10 li (釐) and is1⁄10 of a mace. TheMandarin Chinese wordfēn is used to denote1⁄100 of aChinese renminbi yuan but the termcandareen for that currency is now obsolete.
On 1 May 1878 theImperial Maritime Customs was opened to the public and China's first postage stamps, the "Large Dragons" (Chinese:大龍郵票; pinyin:dài lóng yóupiào), were issued to handle payment. The stamps were inscribed "CHINA" in both Latin and Chinese characters, and denominated in candareens.[4]
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