Fen (unit)

Fen ( Chinese 分 , Pinyin fēn ) in Japanese as bun ( Jap. 分 , kana ぶん ) and in Korean as a pun ( kor. 푼 , Hanja 分 pronounced), formerly in English as hoon and Germans as chicken is written, a Chinese measure of length and weight. In canton it was a gold and silver weight or was generally referred to as candarin (English candareen ) in this use .

Weight

1 fen / chicken / hoon / fivan = 0.375832 grams
1 tael / tael = 100 fèn / chicken = 37.5832 grams (the tael was also the name for a Chinese currency unit that is no longer in use.)

length

1 fen / chicken = 0.32 centimeters (0.365 centimeters)
10 Fen = 1 Taluche
100 Fen = 1 Tschioh

The dimensional chain was

1 Töng / Tong = 2 Gotschioh / Peuntöng = 10 Tschioh = 100 Taluche / Tschuhe = 1000 Fèn / Chicken = 3.65753 meters

Individual evidence

^ Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 398.
↑ Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old measures, coins and weights: a lexicon . Licensed edition of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-411-02148-9 , p. 127 .
^ Christian Noback, Friedrich Eduard Noback: Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 57.

[1] Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 398.

[2] Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old measures, coins and weights: a lexicon . Licensed edition of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-411-02148-9 , p. 127 .

[3] Christian Noback, Friedrich Eduard Noback: Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 57.