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[n]
{mahjong}
▶ floating tile ▶ unused tile ▶ tile not part of a meld
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| 2. | A 2022-04-12 22:01:16 Jim Breen <...address hidden...> | |
| Comments: | Trimming. |
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| Diff: | @@ -15 +15 @@ -<gloss>tile in a player's hand which does not function as a member of a meld or incomplete meld with other tiles</gloss> +<gloss>tile not part of a meld</gloss> |
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| 1. | A* 2022-04-07 02:14:36 Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...> | |
| Refs: | https://kinmaweb.jp/mahjong-yougo/ukihai "Riichi Book I: A Mahjong Strategy Primer for European Players" by Daina Chiba Page 65 https://dainachiba.github.io/RiichiBooks/ Google N-gram Corpus Counts 浮き牌 673 うきはい 281 うきぱい No matches うきハイ No matches うきパイ No matches ウキハイ No matches ウキパイ No matches |
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| Comments: | Anecdotally, the term "floating tile" has a lot of currency among English speaking players of riichi mahjong. It's also used extensively in Chiba's free (Creative Commons) book linked above, which I believe is one of (if not the most) widely read books on the subject in English. |
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