popular  noun  noun (generic)  hanafuda 

• final stage, final stretch, final spurt, last spurt, final push, late charge
• live printing area (in publishing)
• gallery (in a theatre)
• driving (animals, fish, etc.), herding, chasing
• forcing another player to fold (so that oneself can participate in the game)

popular  rarely used kanji form  noun  noun (generic)  familiar language  derogatory  fishing  hanafuda 

• Buddhist priest, bonze
• close-cropped hair, crew cut, person with a shorn head
• boy, sonny, lad
• not catching anything
• the August 20-point card

popular  JLPT N1  noun  noun (generic)  noun or participle taking the aux. verb する  transitive verb  dated term  abbreviation  hanafuda  archaic 

• close examination, careful investigation, close inspection, careful selection, inquiry, enquiry, scrutiny, testing
• investigation of a crime, inquiry into someone's guilt
• winner (of the most rounds, i.e. a full game)
• reciting and appreciating traditional poetry

popular  search-only kana form  JLPT N3  noun  noun (generic)  food, cooking  usually written using kana alone  hanafuda 

• seed (e.g. of a plant), pip, kernel, stone (e.g. of a peach)
• progeny, offspring, issue, breed
• paternal blood, lineage
• sperm, semen, seed
• cause, source, seed, origin
• material (e.g. for an article), matter (e.g. of a story), subject (of discussion), theme, (news) copy, source (of a story)
• ingredient, main ingredient (of a piece of sushi), leaven
• mechanism (of a magic trick, etc.), secret, trickery
• 10-point card, tane, animal card

popular  JLPT N3  Ichidan verb  verb (generic)  intransitive verb  computing  transitive verb  hanafuda 

• to come out, to fall out, to be omitted, to be missing, to escape, to come loose
• to fade, to discolour
• to wear a hole (e.g. clothes)
• to leave (e.g. a meeting)
• to be clear, to be transparent (e.g. of the sky)
• to be absentminded, to be careless, to be inattentive, to be foolish
• to exit (a program loop)
• to go through, to pass through, to give way, to collapse
• to finish a round with more than 88 points (not counting points gained from scoring combinations)

popular  obsolete kanji  JLPT N5  noun  noun (generic)  noun taking the genitive case particle の  adjective (generic)  colloquial  abbreviation  hanafuda 

• red, crimson, scarlet
• red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange)
• Red (i.e. communist)
• red light (traffic)
• red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading), (in) the red
• complete, total, perfect, obvious
• copper
• red 5-point card

gairaigo  Portuguese origin  derogatory  noun  noun (generic)  hanafuda 

• bitch, witch, ugly woman, dog
• 1-point card, junk card

hanafuda  noun  noun (generic) 

• hanafuda, flower cards, playing cards consisting of 12 suits of 4 cards, each suit representing a month indicated by a flower

noun  noun (generic)  hanafuda 

• luminous body (e.g. of a shooting star)
• bright metal
• fish with a silver-blue sheen (e.g. sardines, mackerel)
• 20-point card, bright, light

usually written using kana alone  noun  noun (generic)  hanafuda 

• dregs, sediment, grounds, meal
• lees (esp. sake)
• leftovers, by-product
• worthless item, junk
• dregs (e.g. of society), scum, dross
• 1-point card