Deck
A standard deck consists of 112 cards, divided into four colors, 28 cards each, depicting the seven Chinese chess pieces. In each color there are cards printed with each of the seven pieces of xiangqi, repeated four times each, like in mahjong.
- General
- Advisor
- Elephant
- Chariot
- Horseman
- Cannon
- Soldier
Read more about this topic: Four Color Cards
Famous quotes containing the word deck:
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Plucked from the Carib trees,
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Oozing cantankerous gum
Out of their purple maws....”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
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—William Gibson b. (1948)
“And every sea-god pays a gem,
Yearly out of his watery cell,
To deck great Neptune’s diadem.”
—Thomas Campion (1567–1620)