This card game has many other names, including big deuce and top dog. In Mandarin Chinese it is , pinyin: dà lǎo èr; in Cantonese, , sho tai ti (among other transliterations, including "chor dai di", and rendered in jyutping tonal notation as "co4 daai6 di2"), or simply dai di. It is cap sa in Hokkien, , meaning "thirteen" (coming from the number of cards dealt to each player), a name is commonly used in Indonesia. In Malta, it is often referred to as ('Chinese') or ('Japanese'), due to its East Asian origin. In English, it is sometimes ambiguously called Chinese poker because of its use of poker hands, but this name more often applies to another game of an entirely different nature.