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余剰牌
よじょうはい
1. [n] {mahjong}
▶ surplus tile
▶ tile that has become unnecessary to the advancement of a hand, particularly at the moment tenpai is attained
Cross references:
  ⇒ see: 2018600 聴牌【テンパイ】 1. tenpai; fishing (i.e. needing one more tile for completion)



History:
2. A 2022-04-07 21:27:12  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
1. A* 2022-04-07 03:13:40  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
https://kinmaweb.jp/mahjong-yougo/ukihai

https://www.weblio.jp/content/余剰牌

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
余剰牌	241
よじょうはい	No matches
  Comments:
This completes the trio with 浮き牌 and 孤立牌

This one almost seems obvious from the kanji, but I think the nuances of these three could be easily confused.

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