tujeon

Borrowed from Korean 투전 (鬪牋) (tujeon).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtud͡ʒʌn/

tujeon (uncountable)

1. (card games) Long and narrow traditional Korean playing cards, with 4, 6 or 8 suits of 10 cards each, used primarily from the 17th to 19th century.
   • 2006, I-wha Yi, “Gambling—The Ruin of Families” (chapter 2), in Korea's Pastimes and Customs: A Social History, Homa Sekey Books, →ISBN, page 32:

     Once tujeon started sweeping the country, people no longer paid much attention to baduk or janggi. Tujeon was popular with everyone regardless of status or gender.

   • 2014, Kim Yu-jeong, translated by Charles La Shure, Scoundrels, Literature Translation Institute of Korea, →ISBN, page 19:

     Then he excitedly shuffled the cards before sticking out his hand and saying, “Now, tujeon is the thing—but we’ve got to do something with these flower cards, so how about we play Six Hundred?”

   • 2017 April, Lee Sukyung, “Sangpyeongtongbo”, in National Museum of Korea: Quarterly Magazine‎^[1], volume 39, archived from the original on 24 July 2025:

     Games such as golpae (similar to dominoes) and tujeon (cards), originally popular for socialization and relieving the tiredness of labor, were transformed into games on which big bets were laid.

   • 2022, Sophie Kim, chapter 29, in Last of the Talons, Entangled Publishing, LLC, →ISBN:

     My irritation fades as Misook pulls out the stack of tujeon cards, and we begin another game.

• hwatu (flower cards from Japan that replaced tujeon)