Meaning of hanafuda | Babel Free

Definitions

Small, rigid Japanese playing cards with colorful drawings of flowers and animals, a single deck consisting of 48 cards divided in 12 suits that each represent a month.

uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Examples

“A pack of "Hana-fuda" consists of 48 cards, there being 12 different denominations or figures, and each such denomination or figure being represented by 4 cards of different face values; the figures on such 4 cards of the same denomination being the same, but having certain marks upon them to indicate the difference in their respective face values.”

“Couldn't we play with hanafuda cards instead? I asked. I had a decent amount of experience with oichokabu or koi koi thanks to playing with my mom's family in the countryside.”

“Briefly, Sin described the Hanafuda playing cards and how he had adapted them to his own ends.”

“On a different occasion, he was playing hanafuda in a mountain hut with several Japanese.”

““What’s hanafuda?” Sam asked. “Plastic cards. Quite small and thick, with flowers and scenes of nature,” Watanabe-san said.”

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