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|nowrap| Pei<br/>Pei nuki<br/>(Kita)<ref name="kita"/>   ||align=center nowrap| 北<br/>北抜き<br/>　  || Picking a North [[dora]]

'''Pei nuki''' {{kana|北抜き}} or simply '''pei''' {{kana|北}} is the call for a North [[nukidora]] in [[sanma|three-player mahjong]]. It is commonly called '''kita''' in English-localized mahjong platforms.<ref name="kita">In platforms like [[Mahjong Soul]] and [[Riichi City]], the button and on-screen announcement for this call in the Japanese interface says pei nuki {{kana|北抜き}} (lit. "taking out a North"), and the Japanese character voices will usually call "pei" (or sometimes "pei nuki" or "[[nukidora]]"), while the English interface says kita.<br/>Kita is the regular Japanese word for north, whereas pei is the Japanese name of the North tile in mahjong, borrowed from Mandarin Chinese. Both are written as 北 in Japanese, so it is possible that "kita" originates from an error of the Mahjong Soul localisation team.</ref>