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mahjong
The Collaborative International Dictionary
mahjong \mahjong\, Mah-Jongg \Mah-Jongg\n. A Chinese game played by 4 people with 144 tiles.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A game (originally Chinese) for four players, using a collection of tiles divided into five or six suits. 2 A solitaire game using the same tiles.
WordNet
n. Chinese game played by 4 people with 144 tiles [syn: Mah-Jongg]
Wikipedia
Mahjong , also spelled majiang, mah jongg, and numerous other variants, is a game that originated in Qing Empire. It is commonly played by 4 players (with some 3-player variations found in South Korea and Japan). The game and its regional variants are widely played throughout Eastern and South Eastern Asia and have a small following in Western countries. Similar to the Western card game rummy, Mahjong is a game of skill, strategy, and calculation and involves a degree of chance.
The game is played with a set of 144 tiles based on Chinese characters and symbols, although some regional variations use a different number of tiles. In most variations, each player begins by receiving 13 tiles. In turn players draw and discard tiles until they complete a legal hand using the 14th drawn tile to form 4 groups (melds) and a pair (head). There are fairly standard rules about how a piece is drawn, how a piece is stolen from another player and thus melded, the use of simples (numbered tiles) and honors (winds and dragons), the kinds of melds, and the order of dealing and play. However, there are many regional variations in the rules; in addition, the scoring system and the minimum hand necessary to win varies significantly based on the local rules being used.
Mahjong is a 1996 Taiwanese comedy film written and directed by Edward Yang. The film stars Chang Chen, Nick Erickson and Virginie Ledoyen. The film was entered into the 46th Berlin International Film Festival where it won an Honourable Mention.
Mahjong is a four-player game of Chinese origin
Mahjong or Mah-Jong may also refer to:
- Mahjong solitaire, a tile-matching game usually played on a computer
- Japanese Mahjong, a Japanese version of mahjong
- Three player mahjong, a variant of mahjong
- Mahjongg (band), an indie band based in Chicago
Usage examples of "mahjong".
The night was hot and humid and he was playing mahjong with three of his friends.
He said John Chen was not drunk or bad-tempered, anything like that, but seemed in good spirits, though earlier at the club, the Tong LauClub, he'd appeared irritable and cut the mahjong game short.
They had raided three gambling joints but had, curiously, left five much more prosperous ones untouched even though they were on the same floor of the same tenement and he could hear the click of mahjong tiles and the cries of the fan-tan croupiers.
Her sidestep almost made her upset the ivory tiles of a mahjong player who made his living by matching wits against all comers (and maybe by unduly clever fingers as well).