青あお短たん

noun

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

• 青あお短たんは花はな札ふだの札ふだの一ひとつで、青あおい短たん冊ざくが描えがかれている。

  The aotan is one of the hanafuda cards, depicting a blue tanzaku.

noun

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.

• 青あお短たんができれば5点てん入はいる。

  If you form aotan, you get 5 points.