Hwatu 48-card reference
A Hwatu deck has four cards for each of twelve months, 48 cards in total. Rather than memorizing which month holds Gwang or what color a Tti belongs to, a table is faster.
The table below is generated straight from the data our game engine uses, so the screen and the game never disagree.
At a glance
- 5 Gwang cards fall on month 1, month 3, month 8, month 11, month 12, and of those, month 12 is the Rain Gwang, counted separately.
- 9 Yeol cards, three of which are Godori birds on month 2, month 4, month 8.
- 10 Tti cards split into colors this way. Hongdan is month 1, month 2, month 3, Chodan is month 4, month 5, month 7, Cheongdan is month 6, month 9, month 10, and month 12 is the Rain Tti.
- 24 Pi cards, and the month 12 Double Pi counts as two.
By month
| Month | Name | Four cards |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pine | Gwang, Tti (Hongdan (red)), Pi, Pi |
| 2 | Plum | Yeol (Godori bird), Tti (Hongdan (red)), Pi, Pi |
| 3 | Cherry Blossom | Gwang, Tti (Hongdan (red)), Pi, Pi |
| 4 | Wisteria | Yeol (Godori bird), Tti (Chodan (early)), Pi, Pi |
| 5 | Iris | Yeol, Tti (Chodan (early)), Pi, Pi |
| 6 | Peony | Yeol, Tti (Cheongdan (blue)), Pi, Pi |
| 7 | Bush Clover | Yeol, Tti (Chodan (early)), Pi, Pi |
| 8 | Pampas Grass | Gwang, Yeol (Godori bird), Pi, Pi |
| 9 | Chrysanthemum | Yeol, Tti (Cheongdan (blue)), Pi, Pi |
| 10 | Maple | Yeol, Tti (Cheongdan (blue)), Pi, Pi |
| 11 | Paulownia | Gwang, Pi, Pi, Pi |
| 12 | Willow | Gwang (Rain Gwang), Yeol, Tti (Rain Tti), Double Pi |
Month names here are the commonly used ones. Some regions and sources name them differently.
What this page does not say
Scoring, multipliers, and how Double Pi is counted vary by region and ruleset. Some play the month 9 Chrysanthemum card as a Double Pi, others as a plain Yeol. So this page does not settle that; the values our game actually uses are listed separately on the rules page.
The card composition itself is a fixed fact, so it belongs here. What varies by ruleset does not.