山札

Japanese

Kanji in this term
やま
Grade: 1
ふだ
Grade: 4
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of (yama, mountain; pile) + (fuda, card).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

山札 (hiragana やまふだ, rōmaji yamafuda)

  1. (card games) in certain kinds of card games, the set of cards from which each player draws during game play: the draw pile, the stock
    Synonym: デッキ (dekki)
    • 2000 September 9, Takahashi, Kazuki, “遊闘バトル176 かみつ⁉ [Battle 176: A God Falls⁉]”, in ゆうおう [King of Games], volume 20 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN, page 147:
       (ちが)うな… (かみ) (ちから) () (げん)じゃない…… (やま) (ふだ) (まい) (すう)という (げん) (かい)があったのさ!
      Chigau na… Kami no chikara wa mugen ja nai…… Yamafuda no maisū to iu genkai ga atta no sa!
      Not really… Your God can’t possibly have infinite power…… because the number of cards in your stock is very much finite!
    • 2016 December 9, “しょまえ [Names of the Zones]”, in ポケモンカードゲーム サン&ムーン あそびかたせつめいしょ [Pokémon Card Game Sun & Moon How-to-Play Guide] (non-fiction), The Pokémon Company, page 12:
      デッキをウラにして ()いて「 (やま) (ふだ)」にします。
      Dekki o ura ni shite oite “yamafuda” ni shimasu.
      Place your deck face-down as the “draw pile”.
  2. (historical) during the Edo period, a card indicating that the holder is allowed access to certain mountainous areas in order to gather firewood

See also

References

  1. 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
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