also: かわ
discarded tiles; discards
In mahjong, refers to the pool of tiles that players have discarded during play. The term is borrowed from Chinese hé.
from Chinese hé
He picked a safe tile from the discards.
I discarded a tile I didn't need into the pond.
Read the opponent's wait by looking at the discards.
I advanced my hand by reading my opponent's discards.
More than ten tiles are lined up in the discard pond.
Used to count discarded mahjong tiles (捨て牌) in a river (河).
win on the last discard of a round
Standard kanji spelling for the mahjong term, derived from Chinese hé.
Rare kun-reading for this mahjong term; ホー is the standard reading.
Borrowed from Chinese 河 (hé), used in mahjong to refer to the discard pool.