้ ญใใใพatamapopular JLPT N5 noun noun (generic) abbreviation colloquial mahjong
- head
- hair (on one's head)
- mind, brains, intellect
- leader, chief, boss, captain
- top, tip
- beginning, start
- head, person
- down payment, deposit
- top structural component of a kanji
- pair
popular noun noun (generic) mahjong
- payment made via bank deposit transfer
- discarding a tile that becomes another player's winning tile
rarely used kanji form colloquial usually written using kana alone noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb mahjong obsolete term
- mistake, blunder, bungle, goof
- unintentional rule violation accompanied by a penalty
- mistakenly announcing a win without having all the requisite tiles
noun noun (generic) mahjong
- single horseman
- wait for one tile to finish one's pair and one's hand, wait for half of one's pair with four melds completed
gairaigo Chinese origin mahjong noun noun (generic) counter
- tile
mahjong noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ
- identifying a piece by touch
noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb mahjong
- crossing a mountain
- other side of a mountain
- immediately after one's draw
- winning off a discarded tile from the player to one's right or across the table on the turn after letting one's winning tile go by from the player to one's left
search-only kanji form noun noun (generic) noun or participle taking the aux. verb ใใ intransitive verb mahjong
- meddling, interfering
- choosing to keep the drawn tile and discarding a different one
ateji search-only kanji form noun taking the genitive case particle ใฎ adjective (generic) ใช adjective noun noun (generic) mahjong
- highish, somewhat high, on the high side, high (ball)
- somewhat expensive, comparatively expensive, on the expensive side
- wait tile which produces a winning hand with a higher score
gairaigo Chinese origin mahjong noun noun (generic)
- win worth 8000 points (or, if dealer, 12000 points)