cloth; dress material; clothing fabric
running quickly; fleeing; doing as one likes
half flush; winning hand containing one suit and honor tiles; heterogeneity (e.g. manuf. using products from several sources)
quarter-length game consisting of east round only
all simples; winning hand containing no terminal tiles or honor tiles
having no end tiles or honor tiles and pinfu (common pair of melds)
pure double chow; winning hand containing two identical chows (i.e. same numbers and same suit)
repeated events (meetings, drinking sessions, etc.); series of events; streak; dealer continuing as dealer and east after winning; dealer keep
half-game consisting of an east and south round
win worth 8000 points (or, if dealer, 12000 points)
(an individual's) way of playing mahjong; mahjong tactics
(one's) wife; (someone's) wife; landlady
readiness to cooperate; framework for cooperation
deep pool; deep water; abyss; depths (e.g. of despair, etc.); grip (e.g. of death)
drawing a tile from the wall; win with a self-drawn tile; winning off a self-drawn tile while completely concealed (meld); winning off a self-drawn tile without having called any tiles
han; fan; unit that doubles the score of a hand
to (prepare to) run away (from one's responsibilities, etc.)
no loss or gain; coming out even
home ground; home field; one's haunt; one's stamping ground; one's domain
10,000; ten thousand; myriad; everything; all; (arch.) various
point spread; point difference
bow (weapon); archery; bow (for a violin, etc.)
dash at the beginning of a short-distance race; charging ahead at full strength from the beginning
payment made via bank deposit transfer; discarding a tile that becomes another player's winning tile