Flag (unit)

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Fahn , also Fen or Fan , was a unit of length and mass in the Cochinchina region , today's southern Vietnam and some eastern regions of Cambodia, and with these values is considered an Annamese measure.

Mass unit

1 Fahn = 10 Li = 100 Hao = 1000 Hot = 0.3905 grams

Unit of length

1 flag = 1/100 Thuok = 10 Li = 0.639 centimeters

literature

Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old measures, coins and weights. Bibliographisches Institut, Berlin 1986, ISBN 978-3-41102-148-2 , p. 86.
Author collective: Brockhaus Konversationslexikon . Volume 6, Leipzig 1894-1896, p. 659.