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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 |
A candareen (/kændəˈriːn/;[1] Chinese: 分; pinyin: fēn; Cantonese Yale: fàn;[2] Singapore English usage: hoon[3]) 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 (5.77 gr).
In Hong Kong, one candareen is 0.3779936375 grams[2] and, in the Weights and Measures Ordinance, it is 2⁄150 ounces avoirdupois. In Singapore, one candareen is 0.377994 grams.[3]
The word candareen comes from the Malay kandūri.[1] An earlier English form of the name was condrin.[1] 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 used to denote 1⁄100 of a Chinese renminbi yuan but the term candareen for that currency is now obsolete.
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