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noun
Small, rigid Japanese playing cards, a single deck consisting of 40 cards with values ranging from 1 to 10, used for playing hand-comparing betting games such as oicho-kabu.
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 株(かぶ)札(ふだ) (kabufuda), a compound of カブ (kabu, “the 9 card in kabufuda”) + 札 (fuda, “card”). The former is borrowed from Portuguese cabo (“end”, for being the highest non-face card).
Across languages
2 source translations are retained for this English entry.
