Jip

Jip (Doli: jip³, Bahlian: jip, literally "playing cards" or "board game equipment"), sata or shata (Ragham: ṣata "pile, stack") refers to three sets of traditional cards, one Doli, the ancestor, and two descendants, one Bahlian and one Namunian.

Doli jip

The Doli deck is the originator of all playing card decks in the Orddonach, including the ones listed here as well as pith tiles. It was a system of wooden tokens thought to have originated sometime around 200 BNB around the beginning of the initial Doli-Nanai cultural exchange. Each was inscribed with the–newly introduced to Bahl–Nanai characters indicating their suit and rank. An average ancient Doli deck consisted of 4 suits of 12 cards each, plus five lords, unsuited and unranked cards. This adds up to a total of 53 cards. Each suit was themed after a coloured cardinal direction (red-east, green-north, yellow-west and blue-south), while the five lords each displayed different characters: an arrow, an eye, a crab, a butterfly and the sun, the last of which was usually painted with a red pigment to denote its importance over the rest.

		Numbers
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
Suits	East
	North
	West
	South
Lords		Arrow	Eye	Crab	Butterfly	Sun

Bahlian jip

The standard Bahlian jip deck originates from around the 800s ANB and is very similar to the ancestral Doli deck, but with ranks reduced from 12 to 9. Furthermore, the suits are object-based rather than wind-based: heads, zithers, men and javelins. Plus the five lords, largely unchanged, these sum up to a total of 41 tiles. They forego the use of characters entirely, instead using a system of simplified depictions of their suit names. The 1 of heads is given particular care as it is considered a central tile in some games. These tiles are thin and flat (in contrast with the thicker pith tiles) and usually made of wood, plastic or, less commonly, ceramic.

		Numbers
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Suits	Heads
	Zithers
	Men
	Javelins
Lords		Arrow	Eye	Crab	Butterfly	Sun

Namunian sata

Namunian sata decks originate from the 100s ANB and are very similar to their Doli ancestors, with the ranks reduced from 12 to 8, identical to their subsequent descendants, pith tiles. Instead of wood, much like the Bahlian decks, they are usually made of cardboard or paper. They also do not make use of cardinal points for their suits, but retain similar colours to the Doli deck. They forego the use of characters to instead use objects, like the Bahlian deck: bells, wine cups, pins and tongs (a common eating utensil in much of the Orddonach). The lords are also greatly simplified, using arrow-like symbols to form the vague shape of their Nanai character origins.

		Numbers
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Suits	Bells
	Cups
	Pins
	Tongs
Lords		Arrow	Eye	Crab	Butterfly	Sun