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[n]
{mahjong}
▶ bulging shape ▶ tile pattern composed of a complete chow and an additional tile of its middle rank (e.g. 3445) |
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| 2. | A 2022-04-12 21:52:05 Jim Breen <...address hidden...> | |
| 1. | A* 2022-04-12 16:23:26 Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...> | |
| Refs: | https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/麻雀の戦術#4牌からなる面子候補 "Riichi Book I: A Mahjong Strategy Primer for European Players" by Daina Chiba Page 72 https://dainachiba.github.io/RiichiBooks/ Google N-gram Corpus Counts 中ぶくれ 410 中膨れ 256 なかぶくれ 27 ナカぶくれ No matches ナカブクレ No matches 中ブクレ No matches |
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| Comments: | It seems people are using both "中ぶくれ" and "中膨れ" on Twitter. Chiba calls this a "bulging float shape" in reference to the "floating tile" (浮き牌) that it contains, but that might be too idiosyncratic to include as a gloss here. |
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