<p>According to <a href="http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1C" rel="noreferrer">WWWJDIC</a>, the word is イーチャン, or 一荘 in kanji - read as iichan (although it's unusualy in that it appears to be written in katakana, which I'm guessing could mean that it's a fairly new loanword from Chinese?). There's a JMdictDB entry on it <a href="http://www.edrdg.org/jmdictdb/cgi-bin/entr.py?svc=jmdict&amp;sid=&amp;disp=ed&amp;e=1909377" rel="noreferrer">here</a>.</p>

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<p>In Japanese mahjong generally the longest game most people play is a hanchan (半荘), where the <em>han</em> part (半) implies that it's "half" of something, presumably a full four-wind game with 16 hands.</p>

<p>But is there a name for a four-wind game in Japanese? I can't find a reference for it anywhere if it does.</p>

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What is a four-wind game called in Japanese mahjong?
Joe Z.
# What is a four-wind game called in Japanese mahjong?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-01-21)

In Japanese mahjong generally the longest game most people play is a hanchan (半荘), where the *han* part (半) implies that it's "half" of something, presumably a full four-wind game with 16 hands.

But is there a name for a four-wind game in Japanese? I can't find a reference for it anywhere if it does.

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### Answer by username_1 on 2015-01-21. Score: 5 | Accepted answer

According to [WWWJDIC](http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1C), the word is イーチャン, or 一荘 in kanji - read as iichan (although it's unusualy in that it appears to be written in katakana, which I'm guessing could mean that it's a fairly new loanword from Chinese?). There's a JMdictDB entry on it [here](http://www.edrdg.org/jmdictdb/cgi-bin/entr.py?svc=jmdict&sid=&disp=ed&e=1909377).


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