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A candareen (; ; Singapore English usage: hoon) is a traditional measurement of weight in East Asia. It is equal to 10 cash and is of a mace. It is approximately 378 milligrams. A troy candareen is approximately .
In Hong Kong, one candareen is 0.3779936375 grams and, in the Weights and Measures Ordinance, it is ounces avoirdupois. 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 currency in imperial China equal to 10 li and is of a mace. The Mandarin Chinese word fēn is used to denote of a Chinese renminbi yuan but the term candareen for that currency is now obsolete.
Usage examples of "candareen".
A few yards away, staring into the canyon behind the Candareen, were Jerrad and Saltimbanco.
Varthlokkur, impatiently directing the siege himself, angrily responded by taking a battalion around the Candareen to spend a month hacking a stairway up two thousand feet of cliff to attack the castle from behind.
On Candareen, after big wedding, new wife promised to follow fog-headed husband to gates of Hell.
She thought that she had conceived that wedding night on the Candareen.