mace (measurement)

A mace is an English term for a traditional Chinese measurement of weight in East Asian. The Chinese term is qian or Cantonese term tsin (錢). It is equal to 10 candareens and is 1/10 of a tael. It is approximately 3.78 grams. A troy candareen is approximately 3.74 grams.In Hong Kong, one mace is 3.779936375 gramme. and in ordinance 22 of 1884, it is  oz. avoir.The term candareen was also formerly used to describe a unit of currency in imperial China equal to 10 candareens and is 1/10 of a tael. The word qián also denotes money in Mandarin Chinese. The same Chinese character (kanji) was used for the Japanese sen, the former unit equal to 1/100 of a Japanese yen.
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