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Most yaku which allow one suit of tiles are compatible honitsu. This excludes [[sanshoku]] and [[sanshoku douku]], which require use of all three suits. Honitsu is not compatible with [[chinitsu]], because every chinitsu hand is honitsu. Honitsu combined with [[tanyao]] or [[junchan]] would actually imply chinitsu instead, since there would be no honours.

Honitsu is commonly paired with with [[yakuhai]] (calling [[pon]] for honor tile speeds up hand), [[ittsu]] (which already has 9 tiles of the same suit), and [[shousangen]] (which already has 8 honor tiles).

This yaku is affected by [[kuisagari]]. The hand value decreases by 1 han when open. Honitsu can still be used for open hands, though. When combined with other yaku and/or dora, the -1 han is not a significant loss of value. For example, honitsu + yakuhai + dora 1 is worth ~7700, and the +1 han from closed only brings it up to 8000.