Chinese.
| 10 | fên | = | 1 ch’en (mace). |
| 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. |
| 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 cash[215]. This nên is subdivided for money of account as follows:
| 1 nên (375 grammes) | = | 10 denh. |
| 1 denh | = | 10 chi. |
| 1 chi | = | 10 hun. |
| 1 hun | = | 10 li. |
They employ a coin of silver called a prac-bat or preasat, worth 4 strings or ⅟₂₅ nên[216].
The Mexican piastre, which circulates also, is worth on the average about 6 strings of cash.
1 gold ingot = 16 nêns of silver.