also: サンユアンパイ
Sometimes one of the dragon tiles becomes the dora indicator.
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.