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. It is equal to 10

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and is of a mace. It is approximately 378

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candareen is approximately . In

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, one candareen is 0.3779936375

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. In Singapore, one candareen is 0.377994 grams. The word ''candareen'' comes from the Malay ''kandūri''. An earlier English form of the name was ''condrin''. The candareen was also formerly used to describe a unit of

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in imperial

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equal to 10 li () and is of a mace. The

Mandarin Chinese Mandarin ( ; zh, s=, t=, p=Guānhuà, l=Mandarin (bureaucrat), officials' speech) is the largest branch of the Sinitic languages. Mandarin varieties are spoken by 70 percent of all Chinese speakers over a large geographical area that stretch ...

word '' fēn'' is used to denote 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" (), were issued to handle payment. The stamps were inscribed "CHINA" in both Latin and Chinese characters, and denominated in candareens.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., , 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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Postal denomination

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