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Noun
1. role; assignment; responsibility; duty; function; job; service​
  • かれ彼
  • が
  • じゅうよう重要な
  • やく役
  • を
  • は果たした
  • 。
He played an important part.
Noun
2. position (of responsibility); post; office​
Noun
3. part (in a play, film, etc.); role; character​
  • かれ彼の
  • のぞ望み
  • は
  • ハムレット
  • の
  • やく役
  • を
  • えん演じる
  • こと
  • です
  • 。
His ambition is to play the part of Hamlet.
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4. scoring combination; hand; yaku; meld​Mahjong, Card games, Hanafuda
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1. winning hand​Mahjong, See also 上がる あがる, See also 役 やく
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上がり役 【あがりやく】、アガリ役 【あがりやく】
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1. prediction of another player's winning tile or yaku​Mahjong
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1. appendix; postscript; back matter​
Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verb
2. retrofit; post-installation; custom installation​
Noun, Suru verb, Transitive verb
3. giving a reason afterwards; making an excuse after the event​
Noun
4. atozuke; tenpai hand with no guaranteed yaku, but can gain yaku upon obtaining a specific winning tile​Mahjong
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後付 【あとづけ】
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1. having only tiles of one suit and not having called any tiles (meld); having only tiles of one suit and a concealed hand​Mahjong, Usually written using kana alone, See also メンゼン, See also 清一色, From Chinese
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1. pung (or kong) of east tiles when east is both the round wind and one's seat wind (meld)​Mahjong, See also 連風牌, From Chinese
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1. pung (or kong) of south tiles when south is both the round wind and one's seat wind (meld)​Mahjong, See also 連風牌, From Chinese
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1. pung (or kong) of north tiles when north is both the round wind and one's seat wind (meld)​Mahjong, See also 連風牌
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1. pung (or kong) of west tiles when west is both the round wind and one's seat wind (meld)​Mahjong, See also 連風牌, From Chinese
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1. having no end tiles or honor tiles and pinfu (common pair of melds)​Mahjong, Abbreviation, See also 断ヤオ タンヤオ, See also 平和 ピンフ, From Chinese
Place
2. Tampin​
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Noun
1. having only tiles of one suit and no honor tiles (meld)​Mahjong, Usually written using kana alone, See also 清一色, From Chinese
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清一 【チンイチ】
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メンゼンチンツモホー 門前清自摸和
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1. winning off a self-drawn tile while completely concealed (meld); winning off a self-drawn tile without having called any tiles​Mahjong, See also 門前清, See also 役, From Chinese
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1. tanyao with open melds (not allowed in some rules); open tanyao​Mahjong, See also タンヤオ
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食いタン 【くいタン】
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1. rīchi with self-draw win (common pair of melds)​Mahjong, See also 立直, From Chinese
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メンタンピン
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1. combination of rīchi, tanyao, and pinfu (common trio of yaku)​Mahjong, See also 立直 リーチ, See also 断ヤオ タンヤオ, See also 平和 ピンフ, See also 役 やく, From Chinese
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Noun
1. tiles matching both the round wind and one's seat wind​Mahjong, See also 圏風牌, See also 門風牌, From Chinese “lián fēng pái”
Noun
2. pung (or kong) of these tiles (meld)​Mahjong, See also 役牌
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連風牌 【れんぷうはい】
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Noun
1. drawing a tile from the wall​Mahjong, Usually written using kana alone, From Chinese “zìmō”
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2. win with a self-drawn tile​Mahjong, Usually written using kana alone
Noun
3. winning off a self-drawn tile while completely concealed (meld); winning off a self-drawn tile without having called any tiles​Mahjong, Abbreviation, Usually written using kana alone, See also 門前清自摸和
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自摸 【ツーモー】
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