Candareen
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "infobox". A candareen (Template:IPAc-en;[1] Template:Zh;[2] Singapore English usage: hoon[3]) is a traditional measurement of weight in East Asia. It is equal to 10 cash and is <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />1⁄10 of a mace. It is approximately 378 milligrams. A troy candareen is approximately Script error: No such module "convert"..
In Hong Kong, one candareen is 0.3779936375 grams[2] and, in the Weights and Measures Ordinance, it is <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />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 (Script error: No such module "Lang".) and is <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />1⁄10 of a mace. The Mandarin Chinese word fēn is used to denote <templatestyles src="Fraction/styles.css" />1⁄100 of a Chinese renminbi yuan but the term candareen for that currency is now obsolete.
Postal denomination
On 1 May 1878 the Imperial Maritime Customs was opened to the public and China's first postage stamps, the "Large Dragons" (Template:Zh), were issued to handle payment. The stamps were inscribed "CHINA" in both Latin and Chinese characters, and denominated in candareens.[4]
See also
- Postage stamps and postal history of China#Imperial China
- Chinese units of measurement
- Economy of China
- Economic history of China (Pre-1911)
- Economic history of China (1912–1949)
References
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- ↑ Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg, Germany: Shelfmark: HE6185.C55 T33 1989|title: 大龍郵票與清代郵史 / 中國郵票博物館 編 Ta-lung yu-p'iao yü Ch'ing-tai yu-shih / Chung-kuo yu-p'iao po-wu-kuan pien |Published: 香港 : 商務印書館 Hsiang-kang : Shang-wu yin-shu-kuan, 1989 |Description: 212 p.: col. ill.|Template:ISBN |Language: chi.; eng.|Corp. body: 中國郵票博物館 Chung-kuo yu-p'iao po-wu-kuan|Parallel Title: A picture album of The Large Dragon Stamps and the postal history of the Qing Dynasty|Subjects: Postage-stamps - China - History
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