candareenn.
/kandəˈriːn/ A Chinese weight and money of account, equal to 10 cash or 1/ 100 of a tael. As a weight of gold or silver estimated at about 6 grains Troy.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [noun] > unit or denomination of weight > units in China and the Far East
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1554 A. Nunes 39 in H. Yule & A. C. Burnell Hobson-Jobson (1886) In Malacca the weight used for gold, musk, &c., the cate, contains 20 taels, each tael 16 mazes, each maz 20 cumduryns.]
1615 R. Cocks Diary (1883) i. 1 We bought 5 greate square postes of the Kinges master carpenter; cost 2 mas 6 condrins per peece.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xlix. 242 They have no money either of gold or silver, but all their commerce is made with the weight of cates, cacis, maazes, and conderins.
1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 260 A Moidore by those Weights weighs just thirty Candarines.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 531 Candareen.
1802 Naval Chron. 8 382 Which will be settled at seven mace two candereen per head.
1854 in R. Tomes Amer. in Japan 410 The Japanese have a decimal system of weight, like the Chinese, of catty, tael, mace, candareen, and cash.
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