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Three suits, honours and bonuses.
Also known as: Mahjong suits
The suit and honour structure of a mahjong tile set.
Structure a mahjong set into three numbered suits, honour tiles and bonus tiles.
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Each numbered suit runs one to nine and appears four times, so the set's composition is arithmetic and the game's hand-building follows from it directly.
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The bamboo one is conventionally drawn as a bird rather than as a single bamboo, which is the one tile in the set whose face does not follow its suit's pattern.
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Tiles in three numbered suits of circles, bamboo and characters running one to nine, with honour tiles of winds and dragons and separate bonus tiles.