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*'''Souzu''' (bamboos) - The face of the one of bamboo has a bird design on it. Other copies of the suit are numbered by the amount of sticks. | *'''Souzu''' (bamboos) - The face of the one of bamboo has a bird design on it. Other copies of the suit are numbered by the amount of sticks. | ||
Of special interest are the [[terminal]] tiles - these are the 1 and 9 tiles of each suit. Sequences cannot "wrap around" from 9 -> 1 (i.e. you can't have an 891 sequence), so | Of special interest are the [[terminal]] tiles - these are the 1 and 9 tiles of each suit. Sequences cannot "wrap around" from 9 -> 1 (i.e. you can't have an 891 sequence), so terminals are harder to use. However, terminals are subject to a few special [[yaku]]. Numbers from 2-8 are known as simples. | ||
'''[[Jihai]] (honor tiles/word tiles):''' these can be further split into two categories. Honor tiles cannot be used to create sequences, only triplets. | '''[[Jihai]] (honor tiles/word tiles):''' these can be further split into two categories. Honor tiles cannot be used to create sequences, only triplets. | ||