Rinshan kaihou: Difference between revisions

'''Rinshan kaihou''' {{kana|嶺上開花}} is a standard yaku, where a player wins with the '''rinshanpai''', or the replacement tile after forming a [[kan|kantsu]].  As such, this yaku is only accessible via kan calls.  As the player wins with the tile draw from the [[dead wall]], every instance of this yaku is won by self draw (tsumo) and never by discard (ron).

Rinshan kaihou literally means "flowering {{kana|開花}} on the range {{kana|嶺上}}".  In a sense, the dead wall is treated or viewed as a "mountain", where the winning tile after the kan draw symbolizes as a "flowering" effect.