リーチ

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Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of リーチ – see the following entry.
立直
(mahjong) a (やく) (yaku, hand) won by declaring the hand to be (てん)(ぱい) (tenpai, ready), waiting for one more tile to win; can potentially also score (いっ)(ぱつ) (ippatsu) and (うら)ドラ (uradora)
(mahjong) a call for such a ready hand
(by extension) being one point or move away from victory
(This term, リーチ (rīchi), is the katakana spelling of the above term.)