Fen (Chinese) to Yards (fen to yd)

1 fen (Chinese) equals 0.003645377661 yards (rounded).

1 fen (Chinese) = 0.003645377661 yards

How to convert fen (Chinese) to yards

To convert fen (Chinese) to yards, multiply the number of fen (Chinese) by 0.003645377661. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply yards by 274.32.

yards = fen (Chinese) × 0.003645377661

Example: 10 fen (Chinese) = 0.03645377661 yards.

About these units

Fen (Chinese) (fen)

ChineseTraditional unit (still used in some regions)

One tenth of a cun in the modern market system, 1/300 m (about 3.3 mm).

Smallest of the everyday Chinese length units, the fen shares its character with the ordinary word for a part or a share, which suits a unit defined as one hundredth of a chi. Older descriptions tie its size to the width of a grain of millet, so it was never a fixed physical quantity in antiquity. It had little use for long distances and appeared mainly in carpentry, tailoring and the fine measurements of craftsmen.

In the modern market system the chi is exactly one third of a meter, which makes the fen one three hundredth of a meter, about 3.33 millimeters. It sits below the cun, and ten fen make one cun. Because ancient chi were far shorter than today's, ancient fen were correspondingly smaller. A separate Chinese fen also exists as a mass unit, and the same word was borrowed for fractions of other quantities, so context matters when the term appears.

1 fen (Chinese) = 0.003333333333 meters (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Chinese units of measurement; Wikipedia: Cun (unit)

Yard (yd)

US & ImperialCurrent unit

3 feet or 36 inches, exactly 0.9144 meters. Used for sports fields, fabric and short distances in the US and UK.

Yard descends from the Old English gerd or gyrd, meaning a branch, stave or measuring rod. It first appears in the late seventh-century laws of Ine of Wessex, though there it names a tax unit, the yardland. Around 959 to 963 King Edgar ordered that the measure held at Winchester be used throughout his realm, the earliest record of a prototype. A story that Henry I fixed the yard as the distance from his nose to his thumb is later folklore, and the true origin, whether pace, cubit or waist, remains speculative.

Britain defined the Imperial Standard Yard in 1824 as the distance between two marks on a brass rod at 62 degrees Fahrenheit. A fire in 1834 damaged the standard, a replacement was made in 1845, and the Weights and Measures Act 1855 recognized it. The 1959 international agreement then fixed the yard at exactly 0.9144 meter. Today it measures American and Canadian football fields, association football pitches and cricket pitches, appears on UK road signs for short distances, and is still used to sell fabric in the US and UK.

1 yard = 0.9144 meters (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Yard; Wikipedia: Inch; NIST Guide to the SI, Appendix B.8: conversion factors

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