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[n]
{mahjong}
▶ isolated tile ▶ lone honor tile, or a suited tile separated by two or more ranks from other complete or incomplete melds
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| 2. | A 2022-04-12 22:01:56 Jim Breen <...address hidden...> | |
| 1. | A* 2022-04-07 02:48:29 Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...> | |
| Refs: | https://kinmaweb.jp/mahjong-yougo/ukihai two or more ranks for suited tiles, or a lone honor tile: "孤立牌：浮き牌のなかでも特に、同色で±２の牌がない数牌と1枚だけの字牌" "こりつはい" reading of 孤立牌 is mentioned here: https://majandofu.com/mahjong-glossary-koritsuhai Google N-gram Corpus Counts 孤立牌 863 こりつはい No matches こりつぱい No matches コリツハイ No matches コリツパイ No matches |
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| Comments: | this is a narrower definition of 浮き牌, as mentioned in the Kinma quote above. "honor tile" appears in glosses for other terms, so I think it's okay to use. |
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