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'''Daiminkan''' {{kana|大明槓}} is also called an "open kan".  A player possesses three of a tile type.  Then the fourth is discarded.  The player may claim the discarded tile and form a daiminkan.  Upon doing so, the player has opened the hand, if the hand was initially closed.

Most rules do not allow to flip the kan dora indicator immediately after a daiminkan declaration. It is usually flipped after discarding, or upon another kan declaration on the same turn. Some rules allow the kan dora indicator to be flipped immediately.

A daiminkan may not be made with the last discard of the game, which invokes the follow up procedure to take a [[rinshanpai]].  Because all tiles from the regular wall are used, no replacement tile from the regular wall to the dead wall could be made in order to maintain the dead wall at 14 tiles.  Taking a rinshanpai in this case would reduce the dead wall count to 13, which not acceptable.

Some rules invoke [[Rinshan kaihou#Sekinin barai|sekinin barai]] on a player discarding into the daiminkan.