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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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: card-games, games
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Japanese 花(はな)札(ふだ) (hanafuda), a compound of 花 (hana, “flower”) + 札 (fuda, “card”).
Across languages
6 source translations are retained for this English entry.
