Pure Double Chow

一般高 · Yat Bun Gou

Pure Double Chow (一般高 · Yat Bun Gou) is a Hong Kong mahjong hand: The same run twice over — the identical three tiles, same suit, appearing two times. Mahjiku's default sheet prices it at 5 faan, and every win also carries the 1 faan base, so a hand whose only named line is Pure Double Chow totals 6 faan. Under Mahjiku's default additive payout that 6 faan is the payment itself: the winner collects 18 points on a self-draw (自摸), when all three opponents pay 6 each, or 6 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.

5faan

Mahjiku's default value, from the patterns block of Mahjiku's default rule set. 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 Pure Double Chow at the table

Two matching ladders, exactly the same numbers and suit.

An example

defines it

filler

The bright sets are the ones that make it Pure Double Chow; the faded sets are ordinary filler that any hand needs.

What the engine scores that hand at

These are not illustrative numbers: the tiles above were passed to Mahjiku's scoring engine (won on a discard, with sets claimed from the table, seat wind North, round wind North) and this is the breakdown it returned.

Line the engine emitted	Faan
Pure Double Chow一般高	+5
Base底	+1
Total	6

What 6 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	6	+18	+6
半辣上half spicy	32	+96	+32
辣辣上full spicy	64	+192	+64

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.

Try it yourself

The free faan calculator opens with this hand already selected — add whatever else your hand had and watch the points move.

Open the calculator with Pure Double Chow already ticked All 53 patterns

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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