Tiles & Melds
Honor tile
Also called: 字牌, tsupai, wordy tile
Wind tiles (East, South, West, North) and dragon tiles (White, Green, Red).
Honor tiles include the four wind tiles (East / South / West / North) and the three dragon tiles (White / Green / Red). Honors cannot form chows — only pungs and kongs. Many scoring patterns interact specifically with honors: yakuhai, dragon pung, seat wind, prevalent wind, All Honors, and so on. Sichuan mahjong removes honor tiles from play entirely.
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