three faanHong Kong mahjong faan calculator
Build a winning hand tile by tile and see every faan counted, with the working shown. Set to the usual three-faan minimum and ten-faan limit, or change the rules to match your table.
Your hand concealed tiles, then exposed sets0 / 14
At the table
House rules
How a hand is counted
1. The shape of the hand
Patterns like all pungs, one suit, or a common hand of all chows. Most hands score one or two of these.
2. Winds and dragons
A pung of dragons, your seat wind or the round's wind adds a faan each. East sitting East in the East round gets 2 for one pung.
3. Flowers
Your own flower or season adds 1. Holding none at all also adds 1, which surprises new players.
4. How you won
Self-drawn, a concealed hand, the last tile or a kong replacement each add a faan. Limit hands skip all this and score the limit.
The calculator picks the way of reading your tiles that scores best, then checks the total against the minimum and limit you've set. Everything runs in your browser, and the hand is kept in the page address so you can copy the link and send it to whoever disagrees with you.
Faan table
Every pattern the calculator knows, with its value and an example hand.
Points
How faan become points, and how they're settled on a discard or a self-draw.
Worked hands
Eight hands to count yourself before you look at the answer.
Glossary
The Cantonese you'll hear at the table, with Jyutping.
House rules
Where tables differ, and how to set the calculator to match.