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Japanese mahjong (Japanese: 麻雀, Hepburn: Mājan), also known as riichi mahjong (立直麻雀), is a variation of mahjong. While the basic rules to the game are retained, the variation features a unique set of rules such as riichi and the use of dora. The variant is one of a few styles where discarded tiles are ordered rather than placed in ...
Japanese and Korean mahjong have some special rules. A player cannot win by a discard if that player had already discarded that piece, where players' discards are kept in neat rows in front of them. Players may declare ready, meaning that they need one tile to win, cannot change their hand and win extra points if they win.
The Japanese language makes use of a system of honorific speech, called keishō (敬称), which includes honorific suffixes and prefixes when talking to, or referring to others in a conversation. Suffixes are often gender-specific at the end of names, while prefixes are attached to the beginning of many nouns.
In most rules, the yaku only applies if no opponent called a discard from the player's discard pile. Certain rules allow the player to make open melds. [4] In most cases, the value of this hand is mangan. When determining points, the hand is regarded as winning by self-draw.
Ko (Japanese: 劫, コウ, Hepburn: kō, pronounced / k oʊ /; Chinese: 打劫) refers to a situation where the ko rule applies. The ko rule states that a move cannot be played such that it causes the board to look exactly the same as it did at the end of the player's last move. Consequently, if a player captures a single stone, the opponent ...
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Tsumi (罪) is a Japanese word that indicates the violation of legal, social or religious rules. [1] It is most often used in the religious and moral sense. [1] Originally, the word indicated a divine punishment due to the violation of a divine taboo through evil deeds, defilement or disasters. [2]
JMdict (Japanese–Multilingual Dictionary) is a large machine-readable multilingual Japanese dictionary.As of March 2023, it contains Japanese–English translations for around 199,000 entries, representing 282,000 unique headword-reading combinations.