Japanese mahjong scoring rules: Difference between revisions

'''Fu''' {{kana|符}} (''pronounced as foo'') takes the hand composition into consideration in terms of [[mentsu|tile melds]], [[machi|wait patterns]] and/or win method.  Every hand begins with a default start value of 20 fu.  To determine the final number of ''fu'', the sources of fu are added up along with the base number and then rounded up to the next 10. Even a fu count of 32 gets rounded up to 40.  One exception falls on the [[chii toitsu]] yaku, which is fixed to 25 fu by default.  While fu may be counted for hands worth 5 han or greater, it may no longer be necessary to count fu for [[Score table memorization|human memorization]].  Hands of this value become solely dependent on the han count, regardless of the fu count. All-in-all, '''counting fu is most relevant for hands worth 4 han or less'''.