リーチ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of リーチ – see the following entry.

【立直】 [noun] (mahjong) a 役(やく) (yaku, “hand”) won by declaring the hand to be 聴(てん)牌(ぱい) (tenpai, “ready”), waiting for one more tile to win; can potentially also score 一(いっ)発(ぱつ) (ippatsu) and 裏(うら)ドラ (uradora) [noun] (mahjong) a call for such a ready hand [noun] (by extension) being one point or move away from victory

(This term, リーチ (rīchi), is the katakana spelling of the above term.)