hanafuda
/ˌhɑːnəˈfuːdə/
hanafuda noun: 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.
Noun
hanafuda (usually uncountable, plural hanafuda)
- 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.
- 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...1892, Rossetsu Uchiyama, The Game of "Hana-awase": Japanese Cards, page 1
- 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.2013, Nagaru Tanigawa, translated by Paul Tuttle Starr, The Surprise of Haruhi Suzumiya, volume 2, Yen Press, →ISBN
- Synonyms:
- hwatu
Examples of hanafuda in a sentence
- Briefly, Sin described the Hanafuda playing cards and how he had adapted them to his own ends.2015, Anthony Horowitz, chapter 19, in Trigger Mortis: A James Bond Novel, Orion, →ISBN:
- On a different occasion, he was playing hanafuda in a mountain hut with several Japanese.2016, Ch'en Huo-ch'üan, translated by Lili Selden, Special Issue on Imperial Subject Literature in Taiwan, US-Taiwan Literature Foundation...
Synonyms of hanafuda
Forms of hanafuda
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Origin of hanafuda
From Japanese 花(はな)札(ふだ) (hanafuda), a compound of 花 (hana, “flower”) + 札 (fuda, “card”).
Words that rhyme with hanafuda
Questions about hanafuda
- What does hanafuda mean?
- Hanafuda means 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.
- How do you use hanafuda in a sentence?
- Briefly, Sin described the Hanafuda playing cards and how he had adapted them to his own ends.
- What part of speech is hanafuda?
- Hanafuda is a noun.
- How do you pronounce hanafuda?
- Hanafuda is pronounced /ˌhɑːnəˈfuːdə/.
- What is the plural of hanafuda?
- The plural of hanafuda is hanafuda.
Words near hanafuda in the dictionary
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