mangan

plural mangans

1. Japaneseboard gamesA win achieving five han, or three/four han with the required number of fu; worth 12,000 points if the winning player is on the East (dealer) side or 8,000 points otherwise.

   In mahjong last night I had a six-han hand! I got a mangan.

   2016, Ch'en Huo-ch'üan, translated by Lili Selden, Special Issue on Imperial Subject Literature in Taiwan, US-Taiwan Literature Foundation, →ISBN, The Path, page 66

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   Even if she gets +8000 points with a mangan, she'll be at -1.

   2015, Ritz Kobayashi, “Hand 0: Showdown” (chapter 3), in anonymous translator, Saki, volume 1, Yen Press, →ISBN, page 75

   Outside tournaments the chombo penalty is a reverse mangan payment: 4,000 to East, 2,000 to other players.

   2016, “Riichi: Rules for Japanese Mahjong, 2016 edition”, in mahjong-europe.org, European Mahjong Association, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2016, Chombo (section 3.4.6), page 15

   By the time they'd reached the twelfth round, Kobayashi had won the first hand by drawing his winning tile. "Tsumo! Riizumo, pinfu, dora 2—Mangan. 2000, 4000!" Incredibly, Kobayashi had won a full 8000 points on his first hand.

   2023, Yuto Yotsuba, “Special Short Story "Kongming, the Pinch-Hitter"”, in Ryo Ogawa, transl., Ya Boy Kongming!, volume 10, Kodansha USA, →ISBN

plural Mangans

1. A surname from Irish.

1. A district of Sikkim, India.