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么九牌幺九牌公九牌ヤオ九牌 [sK] ヤオチュウ牌 [sK] ヤオチュー牌 [sK]
ヤオチュウハイヤオチュウパイヤオチューハイ [sk] ヤオチューパイ [sk]
1. [n] {mahjong}
▶ terminal and honor tiles (i.e. 1, 9, and non-numbered tiles)



History:
6. A 2024-05-02 12:23:48  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
Having 么九牌 first seems odd.
5. A* 2024-05-02 06:45:11  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
In the K/M corpus, 幺九牌 is the top form. When absolute counts are this low, I'd say the differences really only amount to noise.

I think the current setup is fine and provides all the important information.
4. A* 2024-05-02 05:20:06  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
幺九牌	729	23.1%
公九牌	237	7.5%
ヤオチュウハイ	103	3.3%
ヤオチュウパイ	0	0.0%
ヤオ九牌	862	27.3%
ヤオチュウ牌	801	25.4%
ヤオチュー牌	422	13.4%
ヤオチューハイ	0	0.0%
ヤオチューパイ	0	0.0%
  Comments:
Should the two most common surface forms (ヤオチュウ牌 and ヤオ九牌) be hidden?
3. A 2023-12-24 21:12:08  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
2. A* 2023-12-24 20:35:24  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
Daijisen has ヤオチューパイ【么九牌】, but most sites on the web have -ハイ.

https://majandofu.com/mahjong-glossary-yaochuhai
  【幺九牌(ヤオチュウハイ)】
  
https://mahjongcollege.com/term/2238/
  么九牌(ヤオチュウハイ)
  
https://kinmaweb.jp/yaku/kokushimusou
  国士無双は、么九牌(ヤオチューハイ)と呼ばれる…

〈公/么/幺/やお/ヤオ〉〈九/ちゅう/チュウ/チュー〉〈牌/ぱい/パイ/はい/ハイ〉

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーーーーーーー─┬─────┬───────╮
│ ヤオ九牌    │ 862 │ 28.0% │
│ ヤオチュウ牌  │ 801 │ 26.0% │
│ 幺九牌     │ 729 │ 23.7% │
│ ヤオチュー牌  │ 422 │ 13.7% │
│ 公九牌     │ 237 │  7.7% │
│ 么九牌     │  31 │  1.0% │
│ ヤオチュウパイ │   0 │  0.0% │
│ ヤオチューパイ │   0 │  0.0% │
│ ヤオチュウハイ │ 103 │  N/A  │
│ やおちゅうはい │  23 │  N/A  │
╰─ーーーーーーー─┴─────┴───────╯
  Diff:
@@ -6,0 +7,28 @@
+<k_ele>
+<keb>幺九牌</keb>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>公九牌</keb>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>ヤオ九牌</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>ヤオチュウ牌</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>ヤオチュー牌</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
+</k_ele>
+<r_ele>
+<reb>ヤオチュウハイ</reb>
+</r_ele>
+<r_ele>
+<reb>ヤオチュウパイ</reb>
+</r_ele>
+<r_ele>
+<reb>ヤオチューハイ</reb>
+<re_inf>&sk;</re_inf>
+</r_ele>
@@ -8,0 +37 @@
+<re_inf>&sk;</re_inf>
@@ -13 +42 @@
-<gloss>terminal, wind and dragon tiles</gloss>
+<gloss>terminal and honor tiles (i.e. 1, 9, and non-numbered tiles)</gloss>
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