also: あおタン
5-point blue tanzaku card; blue ribbon card
In hanafuda, a 5-point card featuring a blue 短冊 (tanzaku/poetry strip). One of the three blue tanzaku cards in the deck.
See also: 短冊
scoring combination of three blue tanzaku cards
A yaku (scoring combination) in hanafuda formed by collecting all three 5-point cards with blue tanzaku: the 青短 of peony, chrysanthemum, and maple.
If you form aotan, you get 5 points.
The aotan is one of the hanafuda cards, depicting a blue tanzaku.
Red tanzaku cards and their scoring combination; the red counterpart to 青短.
The tanzaku (poetry strip) itself; 青短 refers specifically to the blue-tanzaku cards.
Standard kanji spelling for this hanafuda term.
Katakana variant; the reading あおタン is used with this spelling.
Mixed kana/kanji variant.
Alternate kanji spelling; less common.
Alternate kanji spelling; less common.
Compound of 青 (ao, 'blue') and 短 (tan), an abbreviation of 短冊 (tanzaku, 'poetry strip'). The term is specific to hanafuda.