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Human Hand

人和 · Yan Wo

Human Hand (人和 · Yan Wo) is a Hong Kong mahjong hand: A non-dealer wins on a discard in the very first go-around, before drawing a single tile. Mahjiku's default sheet prices it at 16 faan (the combination catalog — the engine has no detector for this hand yet, so a table adds it by hand), and every win also carries the 1 faan base, so a hand whose only named line is Human Hand totals 17 faan. Under Mahjiku's default additive payout that 17 faan is the payment itself: the winner collects 51 points on a self-draw (自摸), when all three opponents pay 17 each, or 17 from the single player who discarded the winning tile (點炮). Faan values are a table's own call; this is Mahjiku's shipped default, editable in House Rules.

16faan

Mahjiku's default value, from the combination catalog — the engine has no detector for this hand yet, so a table scores it by hand. House rules vary from table to table — this is one common setting, not the only "correct" one. Your table can price it differently; the engine reads whatever your rule set says.

How to spot Human Hand at the table

When it happens: you win almost immediately, off an early discard, before your first draw.

What it adds up to

Every win starts at 1 faan for the base, so a hand whose only named line is Human Hand is worth 1 + 16 = 17 faan. Anything else the hand happens to be — a flush, a triplet shape, a dragon set — stacks on top of that.

What 17 faan actually pays

Faan is not the score by itself — it is the number the table turns into points, and Hong Kong tables do that two different ways. Both are shipped in Mahjiku; the additive model is the default.

Payout model	One payer owes	Self-draw 自摸	Discard 點炮
Additivefaan is the payout	17	+51	+17
半辣上half spicy	384	+1152	+384
辣辣上full spicy	8192	+24576	+8192

Self-draw: all three opponents pay. Discard: only the player who threw the tile pays. Both columns are the winner's gain, straight out of the app's settlement function.

Worth knowing. Both doubling tables stop at 13 faan, so this 17-faan hand is paid at the 13-faan row — 384 points under 半辣上 and 8192 under 辣辣上. Everything above 13 faan pays the same. The additive model has no ceiling, so there the extra faan still count.

Try it yourself

Human Hand has no detector in the engine yet — it is a moment at the table rather than a shape in the tiles, so a table adds its faan by hand. The calculator totals up everything else in the hand.

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More context: the pattern library lists every hand by family, the scoring guide explains how faan becomes points, and the FAQ answers the questions people ask before their first game night.

Last updated: 2026-08-27. This page is generated from Mahjiku's shipped scoring engine — the date moves only when its content does.

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