also: サンユアンパイ
dragon tiles
In mahjong, the three dragon tiles: 白 (haku, white dragon), 發 (hatsu, green dragon), and 中 (chun, red dragon).
from Chinese sān yuán pái
See also: 白 (はく) · 発 (ハツ) · 中 (チュン)
三元牌を集めて役を作る。
Collect the dragon tiles to form a yaku.
三元牌のどれかがドラ表示牌になることもある。
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.