kabufuda

noun /ˌkɑːbuˈfuːdə/

1. 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.

   uncountable

   Nowhere do these cards survive in more interesting form than in Japan, where, as Mekuri-fuda or Kabu-fuda, they are used for gambling games.

Where it comes from

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).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry kabufuda (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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