Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The name given by foreigners in China and the far East to the Chinese fun, the 100th part of a liang or ounce.

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Examples

  • Money: 1 tael or liang = 10 tsien (mace); 1 mace = 10 fen (candareen); 1 candareen = 10 li or cash (in French sapèque).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • There was a tiresome string of cash with a rattan twisted through their square holes; silver customs taels, and mace and candareen; Chinese gold leaf and Fukien dollars; coins from Cochin China in the shape of India ink, with raised edges and characters; old Carolus hooked dollars; Sycee silver ingots, smooth and flat above, but roughly oval on the lower surface, not unlike shoes; Japanese obangs, their gold stamped and beaten out almost as broad as a hand's palm; mohurs and pieces from Singapore;

    Java Head Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

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