List: mahjong
Terms used in mahjong, a game for four players that was created in China.
usually written using kana alone mahjong noun noun (generic)
- stretched pair wait, tenpai shape accepting two types of tiles to complete the hand's pair (e.g. 5678 accepting 5 or 8)
mahjong noun noun (generic)
- floating tile, unused tile, tile not part of a meld
mahjong noun noun (generic)
- isolated tile, lone honor tile, or a suited tile separated by two or more ranks from other complete or incomplete melds
mahjong noun noun (generic)
- surplus tile, tile that has become unnecessary to the advancement of a hand, particularly at the moment tenpai is attained
mahjong noun noun (generic)
- inferior double-sided shape, incomplete chow that may be completed by one of eight tiles of two types, two of which tiles are already consumed by the hand's pair, tile pattern composed of a complete chow and an additional tile of its lowest or highest rank (e.g. 3345 or 3455)
mahjong noun noun (generic)
- bulging shape, tile pattern composed of a complete chow and an additional tile of its middle rank (e.g. 3445)
mahjong noun noun (generic)
- winning (a hand)
mahjong expression Ichidan verb verb (generic)
- to declare rฤซchi, to wager a rฤซchi bet
mahjong noun noun (generic)
- rฤซchi bet, scoring stick wagered and placed in the center of the game table by a player after declaring rฤซchi
mahjong noun noun (generic)
- many-sided wait (for one's last tile), complex wait, wait for three or more types of tiles which will finish one's hand