断么

断么

See also: 斷幺 and 断幺

Japanese

Kanji in this term
断	么
たん Grade: 5	やお Hyōgaiji
Irregular

Etymology

Borrowing from Chinese 斷幺／断幺 (duànyāo).[1][2]

Pronunciation

• (Irregular reading)
  • (Tokyo) タンヤオ [tàń'yáó] (Heiban – [0])[2]
  • IPA^(key): [tã̠ɰ̃ja̠o̞]

Noun

断么 (katakana タンヤオ, rōmaji tan'yao)

1. (mahjong) Short for 断么九 (tan'yaochū): a 役 (yaku, “winning hand”) without any terminal or honor tiles, worth 1 翻 (han, “double”)

References

1. 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
2. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN