centimeter

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Koohii stories:

1) [mantixen] 16-2-2007(21): A rin of a meter is a centimeter.

2) [synewave] 30-4-2007(13): Centimeter is spelt the American way. As mantixen says, it is a rin of a meter.

3) [icamonkey] 10-7-2009(5): A centimeter is as long as a piece of rice, which is oddly enough worth about a rin.

4) [Meconium] 11-3-2010(2): One meaning of rin (#178 厘) is "one-hundredth", but if you're thinking of the old coin, the hole in a rin coin was one centimetre in diameter.

5) [Peppi] 4-6-2009(2): Remember? You threw the computer off the cliff and it was worth a rin! The size has reduced, too. The smallest pieces are about as big as a grain of rice, the biggest pieces are some centimeters "big".