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Mahjong

having too many tiles on one's hand

Mahjong

tile accidentally or mistakenly shown to other players

four-color cards (Chinese playing cards); four-suited chess cards

Mahjong

white dragon tile

paifang (Chinese architectural arch or gateway)

Mahjong

tile discarded and turned sideways after declaring rīchi

Mahjong

floating tile; unused tile; tile not part of a meld

Mahjong

isolated tile; lone honor tile, or a suited tile separated by two or more ranks from other complete or incomplete melds

Mahjong

surplus tile; tile that has become unnecessary to the advancement of a hand, particularly at the moment tenpai is attained

Mahjong

wall; wall tiles

Mahjong

minor tiles (suited tiles numbered 2 through 8); inside tiles

ancestral tablet

unsun karuta; Japanese deck of cards with 5 suits of 15 cards each

hanafuda; Japanese playing cards (12 suits of 4 cards, each suit representing a month indicated by a flower)

Mahjong

winning tile

to disgrace one's ancestors; to tarnish the honour of one's ancestors

karuta box; playing card case

Historical term

money-exchange shop coin box

Mahjong

yaku-less tenpai; hand that is one tile from completion but cannot satisfy a standard win condition

Historical term

playing card tax; tax on playing cards, mahjong sets, domino sets, etc. (abolished in 1989)

Rare term; Mahjong

tile matching the round wind

Obsolete term; Hanafuda

hanafuda

Dated term

Western playing cards