The cards most commonly used in China, are those called Tseen-wan-che-pae,—"a thousand times ten thousand cards." There are thirty cards in a pack; namely, three suits of nine cards each, and three single cards which are superior to all the others. The name of one of the suits is Kew-ko-wan; that is, the nine ten-thousands, or myriads of Kwan—strings of beads, shells, or money. The name of the other suit is Kew-ko-ping,—"nine units of cakes;" and that of the third is Kew-ko-so,—"nine units of chains." The names of the three single cards are, Tseen-wan, a thousand times ten thousand; Hung-hwa, the red flower; and Pih-hwa, the white flower.
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