大四喜

dàsìxǐ

noun

Meanings

1 Big Four Winds (mahjong yakuman)
2 Four Big Blessings

Characters

Examples

他胡了个大四喜。

Tā húle ge dàsìxǐ.

He won with a Big Four Winds hand.

大四喜是番数最高的牌型之一。

Dàsìxǐ shì fānshù zuì gāo de páixíng zhī yī.

Big Four Winds is one of the highest-scoring hands.

Tips

culture

A 大四喜 hand requires triplets or quads of all four winds (东南西北). In Japanese mahjong it's a yakuman; in Chinese rules it pays the maximum score.

Stroke Order

大 dà

四 sì

喜 xǐ