山札

Japanese

Kanji in this term
山	札
やま Grade: 1	ふだ Grade: 4
kun'yomi

Etymology

Compound of 山 (yama, “mountain; pile”) +‎ 札 (fuda, “card”).

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) やまふだ [yàmáꜜfùdà] (Nakadaka – [2])
• IPA^(key): [ja̠ma̠ɸɯ̟da̠]

Noun

山(やま)札(ふだ) • (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, Kazuki Takahashi, “遊闘(バトル)176(ひゃくななじゅうろく)　神(かみ)堕(お)つ⁉ [Battle 176: A God Falls!?]”, in 遊(ゆう)☆戯(ぎ)☆王(おう) [King of Games], volume 20 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN, page 147:

     違(ちが)うな…神(かみ)の力(ちから)は無(む)限(げん)じゃない……山(やま)札(ふだ)の枚(まい)数(すう)という限(げん)界(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, “場(ば)所(しょ)の名(な)前(まえ) [Names of the Zones]”, in ポケモンカードゲーム サン＆ムーン 遊(あそ)びかた説(せつ)明(めい)書(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置(お)いて「山(やま)札(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

• 手(て)札(ふだ) (tefuda): a hand of cards, the cards in one's hand
• 場(ば)札(ふだ) (bafuda): the discard pile in various kinds of card games