単たん騎き待まち

noun

waiting for a single tile to complete a pair and win; waiting for one tile to finish a pair with four melds already completed

Mahjong term: a tenpai pattern where the hand needs only one specific tile to form the final pair (head). The first gloss describes the general case; the second describes a specific situation where all four melds are already complete and only the pair is missing.

• 単たん騎き待まちでリーチをかけた。

  I declared riichi with a single-tile wait for the pair.

• 彼かれは単たん騎き待まちのまま、最さい後ごまでその牌はいを引ひけなかった。

  He stayed on a single-tile wait for the pair and never drew that tile until the end.