Hong Kong mahjong scoring rules

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In Hong Kong mahjong, when a player declares a winning hand, scoring proceeds in two stages. First, the winning hand is awarded a number of "faan"—a unit from the Cantonese term 番 (pinyin: fān / jyutping: faan1). Second, faan are converted into scores for each player. When gambling with mahjong, these scores represent money. In this article, "points" refer exclusively to these scores (and not faan). Most Hong Kong mahjong games require that players declaring a win to have 3 faan, but other minimums are possible. This generally increases the length of each game and allows more strategizing around discarding and forming melds.

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