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A blank tile or one bearing an empty frame.
Also known as: White dragon honour, Haku tile, Blank tile mahjong
The white dragon tile, drawn blank or as an empty frame, third of the three dragon honours.
Is the white dragon, third of the three dragon honour tiles.
Contexts: History
Is a tile whose identity is the absence of a device, which is why sets draw a frame on it: an unmarked tile and a tile face-down are otherwise the same thing.
Contexts: History
Related forms that are not treated as separate canonical symbols — see our variant rules.
Blank face
The tile face carries nothing at all. Easily taken for a spare or a damaged tile by a new player, and the reason sets often include a genuine blank replacement tile that is not this one.
Framed face
A rectangular frame drawn near the tile's edges with nothing inside it. The commoner form on modern sets, and the one that makes the tile unmistakably a dragon rather than a blank.
A tile face left entirely blank, or carrying only a rectangular frame drawn near its edges with nothing inside.