This yaku may apply to any closed hand. Any player who draws a winning tile with a closed hand is awarded this yaku.

This is a special yaku applied to closed tenpai hands, which requires the player to make a declaration and "wager".

Riichi is declared with a dealt hand before the first discard.

This is applied when the player calling riichi wins before their next discard. In addition, the cycle must not be interrupted by tile calls.

The hand is completed with the last tile on the wall.

The hand is completed with the very last discarded tile.

This yaku is awarded upon winning with a tile from the dead wall.

The winning tile for a hand is called on another player's Kan. Essentially, the tile needed to complete a Kan is stolen to complete a winning hand.

A hand with at least one group of dragon tiles, seat wind, or round wind tiles. This hand can be valued at 1 han for each group.

This hand is composed of seven pairs. It is one of two exceptions to the standard 4 tile groups and a pair pattern.

Typically known as "all sequences", this is a hand that does not gain fu based on composition or wait, other than that of a closed ron.

"All Simples", a hand composed of only simples (numbers 2-8).

This hand includes two identical sequences.

All tile groups contain at least 1 terminal or honor.

"Three color straight", a hand with the same sequence in all three suits.

This hand has a complete sequence of 1 through 9 of a single suit. As a note, the sequence of 1-9 are actually three groups of sequences numbered 123, 456, and 789; these can be open or closed but must be in that pattern.

The entire hand is composed of triplets.

The hand includes three groups of triplets (or closed quads) that have been formed without calling any tiles. The fourth group can be an open triplet or sequence.

The hand includes three groups of triplets with the same number.

Three kans are called for this hand.

The hand is composed of nothing but all terminals and honors. † This hand may be considered as 4 han, because it is impossible to score this hand without either chii toitsu or toi toi.

The hand contains two sets of 3 dragon tiles and a pair of the third dragon tiles. † This hand may be considered as 4 han, because it is impossible to score this hand without two sets of yakuhai, from the two sets of dragons.

"Half Flush", this is a single suit hand mixed with some honor tiles.

All sets contain at least one terminal.

This hand has two sets of "iipeikou". This hand does not combine with chiitoitsu, even though the hand can be interpreted as one.

"Full Flush", this hand is composed entirely of tiles from only one of the three suits. It is the only yaku set at 6 han, where the number drops to 5 han when opened.

This is a special class of yakuman, where a hand is composed of 13+ han based on the combination of above regular yaku and/or dora.

This hand has one of each of the 13 different terminal and honor tiles plus one extra terminal or honour tile. Some rules may allow double yakuman for a 13-wait set.

This hand is composed of four groups of closed triplets. When this hand has a shanpon pattern and the win is via ron, then it would not be counted as such; only as the lesser toitoi with sanankou. A tanki pattern and ron is still valid.

This hand possesses three groups (triplets or quads) of all the dragons.

This hand has three groups (triplets or quads) of the wind tiles plus a pair of the fourth kind.

This hand has four groups (triplets or quads) of all four wind tiles.

Every group of tiles are composed of honor tiles.

Every group of tiles are composed of terminal tiles.

A hand composed entirely of green tiles: 2, 3, 4, 6 and 8 Sou and/or Hatsu.

A hand containing the 1-1-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-9-9 tile pattern in a single suit, plus a single extra tile from the same suit.

Any hand with four calls of kan.

The dealer hand is a winning hand even before discarding a tile.

The non-dealer hand is a winning hand with the first tile draw.

All the discards are terminals and/or honors. In addition, none of these discards were called by other players.