A candareen (Chinese: 分; pinyin: fēn; Cantonese Yale: fàn[1]) is a traditional measurement of weight in East Asia. It is equal to 10 cash and is 1/10 of a mace. It is approximately 378 milligrams. A troy candareen is approximately 374 milligrams.
In Hong Kong, one candareen is 0.3779936375 gramme[1] and in ordinance 22 of 1884, it is 2⁄150 oz. avoir.
The candareen was also formerly used to describe a unit of currency in imperial China equal to 10 li (釐) and is 1/10 of a mace. The Mandarin Chinese word fēn is currently used to denote 1/100th of a Chinese renminbi yuan but the term candareen for currency is now obsolete.
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- Chinese units of measurement
- Economy of the People's Republic of China
- Economic history of China (Pre-1911)
- Economic history of Modern China
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