Terminal or honor in every set 混全帯幺九 · chanta
Every set — and the pair — contains at least one terminal (1 or 9) or honor tile.
| Value | 2 han closed · 1 han open |
|---|---|
| How often | uncommon |
A chanta hand usually chooses you. The signal is a starting hand full of the tiles most players throw away first: 1s, 9s, winds, dragons, plus edge shapes like 1-2 or 8-9. If you count three or four blocks like that, clearing them all out would take half the hand anyway, so bending into chanta can beat fighting your draw.
Build from the edges in. Tiles 4 through 6 can never appear in a valid chanta set, so cut them early, and keep 2s, 3s, 7s, and 8s only where they extend a 123 or 789. The detail beginners miss is the pair: it needs a terminal or honor too, and a pair of 5s quietly invalidates the whole hand. Point one triplet at a dragon or your seat wind if you can — a yakuhai 役牌 han is what turns this slow 2-han project into a hand worth the wait.
Open, chanta drops to 1 han, so call only when the calls feed something else at the same time, such as a value-tile pon ポン or a drift toward honroutou shapes. And if the hand holds no honors at all, check junchan: the same idea with terminals only, worth one han more.
Key points
- Sequences must therefore be 1-2-3 or 7-8-9
- Upgrades to junchan (3 han closed / 2 open) if you drop the honors and use terminals only
- Slow to build; the payoff usually comes from stacking it with yakuhai, or upgrading to junchan by dropping the honors
Related yaku
- Terminal in every set 純全帯幺九 — Chanta without honors: every set and the pair contains a terminal, honors excluded.
- All terminals and honors 混老頭 — Every tile in the hand is a terminal or an honor — no 2 through 8 anywhere.
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