# The winds

[Canonical page](https://jongg.app/tiles/winds)

東南西北: the four wind tiles, the seats at the table they name, and the letters American sets add.

## What it means

東南西北: dōng, nán, xī, běi; east, south, west, north. The four winds are the four seats at the table, and the game moves round them in that order, which is the order a Chinese compass reads, not the one an English one does.

American sets add the letter E, S, W or N above the character so a reader of either script finds the tile. Here the character and the letter are both part of the information layer; a set may color them and may not change them.

The dealer sits in the east, and the hand number counts the deal round the table.

## The tiles, one by one

Screen 5 of 9 in What's on the tile.

A historian's review of the history on these screens is pending.

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