also: サンユアンパイ
Sometimes one of the dragon tiles becomes the dora indicator.
The green dragon tile, one of the three dragon tiles.
The red dragon tile, one of the three dragon tiles.
Standard kanji spelling for the mahjong dragon tiles.
Chinese-derived reading; rarely used in Japanese mahjong contexts.
From Chinese 三元牌 (sān yuán pái), meaning 'three fundamental tiles'. The term was borrowed into Japanese mahjong terminology.