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Winds and dragons — the tiles with no number and no sequence.
Also known as: Winds and dragons, Red green and white tiles
Seven tiles outside the three numbered suits: four winds and three dragons. They cannot form runs, only sets of identical tiles, which is the rule that makes them worth their own record.
Seven tile types outside the numbered suits: the four winds — east, south, west and north — and the three dragons, conventionally red, green and white.
They have no rank order, so they can be collected into sets of three or four identical tiles but never into a run. That is the whole of what distinguishes them mechanically from the suits.
The white dragon is conventionally a blank tile or one bearing an empty blue frame, which is a deliberate mark rather than a manufacturing fault.
A blank honour tile is the white dragon, not a spare.
Small rectangular tiles carrying a single Chinese character in red, green or blue, or a plain face bordered by an empty rectangular frame.
Suit tiles and honour tiles make up one set.