Dora

Also called: ドラ, Japanese bonus tile

Riichi bonus tile — each copy in your hand adds 1 han.

Dora are Riichi's randomly-determined bonus tiles. Each round, one tile in the dead wall is flipped face-up — the dora indicator. The dora is the tile one rank above the indicator (so if the indicator is 5m, the dora is 6m). Every copy of the dora in your winning hand adds 1 han. Akadora (red 5s) are always dora regardless of the indicator. After declaring riichi, you also get ura dora — additional indicators revealed on win.

Related terms

Akadora
Riichi 'red five' tiles — each red 5 always counts as 1 han.
Ura dora
Riichi-only: extra dora revealed only if you declared riichi and won.
Han
Riichi scoring unit — counts each yaku in your hand.