牌

Meaning

牌 centers on a flat, visible marker used for identification or display: a label, signboard, medal, or mahjong tile. All senses share the idea of a flat object that carries information or status.

• 牌はい

  medal; shield; badge

• 牌パイ

  tile

• 位牌いはい

  Buddhist mortuary tablet

• 聴牌テンパイ

  tenpai; fishing (i.e. needing one more tile for completion)

• 賞牌しょうはい

  medal

• ドラ牌ドラパイ

  dora tile; special tile that increases the han value of a hand

• 三元牌さんげんパイ

  dragon tiles

• 上がり牌あがりハイ

  winning tile

• 中張牌チュンチャンパイ

  minor tiles (suited tiles numbered 2 through 8); inside tiles

• 么九牌ヤオチュウハイ

  terminal and honor tiles (i.e. 1, 9, and non-numbered tiles)

• 位牌を汚すいはいをけがす

  to disgrace one's ancestors; to tarnish the honour of one's ancestors

• 位牌堂いはいどう

  mortuary chapel

• 位牌所いはいじょ

  site of a Buddhist mortuary tablet

• 余剰牌よじょうはい

  surplus tile; tile that has become unnecessary to the advancement of a hand, particularly at the moment tenpai is attained

• 先祖の位牌せんぞのいはい

  ancestral tablet

• 四色牌スーソーパイ

  four-color cards (Chinese playing cards); four-suited chess cards

• 四風牌スーホンパイ

  wind tiles

• 場風牌ばかぜはい

  tiles matching the round wind

• 壁牌ピーパイ

  wall tiles; wall

• 多牌ターパイ

  having too many tiles on one's hand

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