is the Nên or bar of ten taels or ounces. Before going further it will be convenient to describe briefly what we may term the Chinese system of avoirdupois weight. Then we shall give the system borrowed from the Chinese and used in Cambodia and Cochin-China.
Chinese.
| 10 | fên | = | 1 ch’en (mace). |
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| 10 | ch’en | = | 1 liang , tael or ounce. |
| 16 | tael | = | 1 chin , commonly known as catty, = 1⅓ lbs. English. |
| 100 | catties | = | 1 tan or shih , commonly known to us as the picul (= 133⅓ lbs. English). |
Cambodia. Money system.
| 60 cash or sapecs of zinc | = | 1 tien . |
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| 10 tien | = | 1 string. |
| 10 strings | = | 1 nên or bar of silver (90 francs). |
The nên is an ingot of silver of parallelopiped form, which is invariably worth 100 strings of zinc cash5. This nên is subdivided for money of account as follows:
| 1 nên (375 grammes) | = | 10 denh . |
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| 1 denh | = | 10 chi . |
| 1 chi | = | 10 hun . |
| 1 hun | = | 10 li . |