All Honors (字一色)
16 tai
Every tile in the hand is an honor (winds or dragons).
Example winning hand
Winning tile: 6z
How All Honors (字一色) works
The entire hand is built only from honor tiles — winds and dragons — with no number-suit tiles at all.
All Honors requires all five sets and the pair to be made from winds (East, South, West, North) and dragons (red, green, white), which forces the hand into all pungs since honors cannot form runs. It is a top-tier rare pattern and inherently contains All Pungs, and usually overlaps with dragon and wind pung tai. No dots, bamboo, or characters may appear anywhere.
Good to know
- •Because honors cannot form chows, an all-honor hand is automatically all pungs.
- •It commonly carries dragon pung, wind pung, and even Great or Small Three Dragons tai underneath.
- •A single number-suit tile disqualifies the hand from this pattern.
All Honors (字一色) — FAQ
Can All Honors include a chow?
No. Honor tiles never form runs, so every set in an All Honors hand must be a pung or kong.
Does All Honors overlap with All Pungs?
Yes. Since the hand is necessarily all triplets, it satisfies All Pungs as well, which may stack depending on table rules.
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