화투

Sino-Korean word from 花鬪, from 花 (“flower”) + 鬪 (“fight”).

Latter half possibly taken from 투전 (鬪牋, tujeon, literally “fighting tablets”), traditional Korean playing cards that were replaced by hanafuda/hwatu during the Japanese occupation (1910-1945).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ɸwa̠tʰu]
• Phonetic hangul: [화투]

화투 • (hwatu) (hanja 花鬪)

1. (card games) hanafuda, a kind of playing cards consisting of 12 suits of 4 cards, or any game played using them

   화투를 치다

   hwatu-reul chida

   to play a game using hwatu cards

• 화투하다 (hwatuhada)
• 민화투 (minhwatu)

• → English: hwatu