Troy weight g, 12 oz t), while an avoirdupois pound is approximately 21.53% heavier at 7 000 grains (≈ 453.59 g). One troy ounce (oz t) is equal to grams. Also equal to avoirdupois ounces, exactly , or about 10% larger. The pennyweight symbol is "dwt". There are 24 grains in 1 dwt, and 20 dwt in one troy ounce. Because there were 12 troy ounces in the old troy pound, there would have been 240 pennyweights to the pound—the basis of the fact that the old British pound sterling of currency contained 240 pence. (However, prior to 1526, English pound sterling
Five Grains as in the Min Nan custom of creating a Taoist stove to cook "Chui Zhao Fan", a meal for the Kitchen God in which five dry seeds are placed into a slot in the chimney of the stove. Casual worshippers may simply use any five beans (e.g., of different colors) instead of any particular set of grains. Chinese cuisine is not known for any single recipe using all five grains, so there is no grain equivalent of five-spice powder or "eight treasure rice" (八寶飯, "babaofan"). Many, perhaps most, Chinese cooking employs the grains in some fashion, though: rice, congee, noodles,