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役 [ichi1,news1,nf04]
【やく [ichi1,news1,nf04] 】

[n]
▶ role
▶ assignment
▶ responsibility
▶ duty
▶ function
▶ job
▶ service

[n]
▶ position (of responsibility)
▶ post
▶ office

[n]
▶ part (in a play, film, etc.)
▶ role
▶ character

[n] {mahjong,card games,hanafuda}
▶ scoring combination
▶ hand
▶ yaku
▶ meld

Cross references:
	⇐ see: 2847157 役札【やくふだ】 1. card that can be used to make a scoring combination
	⇐ see: 2847184 役代【やくだい】 1. points awarded for scoring combinations
	⇐ see: 1895940 手役【てやく】 1. scoring combination in one's dealt hand (i.e. at the start of a game); meld in a starting hand
	⇐ see: 2826488 出来役【できやく】 1. scoring combination made with captured cards; meld
	⇐ see: 2750640 門前清自摸和【メンゼンチンツモホー】 1. winning off a self-drawn tile while completely concealed (meld); winning off a self-drawn tile without having called any tiles
	⇐ see: 2752760 メンタンピン 1. combination of rīchi, tanyao, and pinfu (common trio of yaku)

History:

14.	A 2022-07-22 04:27:21 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
	Diff:	@@ -40 +40,4 @@ -<gloss>scoring combination (in mahjong, card games, etc.)</gloss> +<field>&mahj;</field> +<field>&cards;</field> +<field>&hanaf;</field> +<gloss>scoring combination</gloss>
13.	A 2022-04-11 12:20:33 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
12.	A* 2022-04-06 14:10:43 Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	Thanks to everyone for the thoughtful feedback. I agree now that the entry is probably fine as-is, as long as we take care to avoid using "meld" and "yaku" interchangeably on senses that are mahjong-specific (unlike this one).
11.	A 2022-04-06 08:13:06 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	I agree with Jim - in hanafuda and mekuri karuta, "win condition" does not work at all as a translation. Thanks for sharing your expertise on mahjong through so many entries though, Stephen! (not to mention the great work you're doing on Yomichan)
	Diff:	@@ -41 +40,0 @@ -<gloss>win condition</gloss> @@ -43,0 +43 @@ +<gloss>meld</gloss>
10.	A* 2022-04-06 04:14:06 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	GG5: 〔カードゲームや麻雀の手〕
	Comments:	I'm uncomfortable with this edit as I feel it's rather too focused on the specific situation with mahjong, where a chow (which I regard as a type of meld) is not a "win condition". Unless we were to create a mahjong-specific sense, I'd rather the sense was left the way it was, with "meld" still there as a gloss. After all the term is used in other games too.
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9.	A* 2022-04-04 19:38:10 Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	European Mahjong Association, Riichi Competition Rules (RCR) (PDF) http://mahjong-europe.org/portal/images/docs/Riichi-rules-2016-EN.pdf Page 9: "A complete mahjong hand is composed of four sets and a pair. A set may be either a chow, a pung or a kong. In addition, a complete hand must have at least one yaku (scoring pattern)." "Two special hands exist in riichi which are not composed of four sets and a pair: Seven Pairs and Thirteen Orphans." Page 23: "Nagashi Mangan" "After an exhaustive draw, a player can claim this special hand if he has a concealed hand, has discarded only terminal and honour tiles and none of his discards has been claimed. The player does not have to be tenpai."
	Comments:	We should avoid confusing the concepts of melds and yaku. Many yaku refer to specific combinations of melds within a player's hand, but many have nothing to do with the player's hand at all. With the "Nagashi Mangan" yaku described above, a player only needs to go an entire round without discarding simple number tiles (two through eight) in order to win with the yaku, for example.
	Diff:	@@ -41 +41 @@ -<gloss>meld</gloss> +<gloss>win condition</gloss>
8.	A 2019-12-05 09:33:46 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
7.	A* 2019-12-05 05:51:05 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	Adding "yaku" to the "scoring combo" sense as it's apparently sometimes used in English
	Diff:	@@ -42,0 +43 @@ +<gloss>yaku</gloss>
6.	A 2019-09-07 00:51:24 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	42 sentences, most of which are sense 3.
5.	A* 2019-08-31 22:35:45 Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	Leaving open so sentences can be updated.
4.	A 2019-08-31 22:33:58 Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
	Refs:	gg5, prog, daij
	Comments:	Expanding.
	Diff:	@@ -18,2 +18,6 @@ -<pos>&n-suf;</pos> -<gloss>use</gloss> +<gloss>role</gloss> +<gloss>assignment</gloss> +<gloss>responsibility</gloss> +<gloss>duty</gloss> +<gloss>function</gloss> +<gloss>job</gloss> @@ -21,3 +24,0 @@ -<gloss>role</gloss> -<gloss>part</gloss> -<gloss>performance</gloss> @@ -27 +28 @@ -<pos>&n-suf;</pos> +<gloss>position (of responsibility)</gloss> @@ -29 +30 @@ -<gloss>position</gloss> +<gloss>office</gloss> @@ -33 +34,7 @@ -<gloss>scoring combination (e.g. in mahjong, card games, etc.)</gloss> +<gloss>part (in a play, film, etc.)</gloss> +<gloss>role</gloss> +<gloss>character</gloss> +</sense> +<sense> +<pos>&n;</pos> +<gloss>scoring combination (in mahjong, card games, etc.)</gloss>
3.	A* 2019-08-31 09:19:43 Nicolas Maia
	Refs:	wordnet etc https://ejje.weblio.jp/content/役
	Diff:	@@ -21,0 +22,2 @@ +<gloss>part</gloss> +<gloss>performance</gloss>
2.	A 2018-10-24 00:58:04 Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	OK
1.	A* 2018-10-23 04:23:35 Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
	Comments:	I don't think the last sense is n-suf.
	Diff:	@@ -31 +30,0 @@ -<pos>&n-suf;</pos> @@ -32,0 +32 @@ +<gloss>meld</gloss>

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