Mahjong Definition

noun
A game of Chinese origin usually played by four persons with tiles resembling dominoes and bearing various designs, which are drawn and discarded until one player wins with a hand of four combinations of three tiles each and a pair of matching tiles.
American Heritage

A solitaire game using the same tiles.

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Origin of Mahjong

  • From Cantonese 麻將 / 麻将 (Jyutping: maa4 zoeng3, Yale: ma4 jeung3), standard Mandarin: 麻將 / 麻将 (májiàng).

    From Wiktionary

  • Mandarin májiàng

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Mahjong Sentence Examples

  • Choose from familiar games like a Halloween version of Mahjong or various Halloween matching games.

  • To play Mahjong online, you usually have to sign up for an account with the hosting website, but these accounts are typically free.

  • The tables are arranged in "lounges" for beginners, intermediate, and advanced Mahjong players, so you can usually find a game with players with the same skill level as you.

  • In MahJong Suite 2006, you play traditional mah-jongg-type games with classical mah-jongg tile sets and millions of possible combinations.

  • WordJong To Go combines the tile-clearing strategies of Mahjong with the word-forming fun of Bookworm.

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