mahjong
/mɑːˈd͡ʒɒŋ//mɑˈd͡ʒɔŋ/
mahjong noun: a game (originally Chinese) for four players, using a collection of tiles divided into five or six suits.
Noun
mahjong (uncountable)
- A game (originally Chinese) for four players, using a collection of tiles divided into five or six suits.
- Miss Ganett drank coffee whilst Caroline got out the Mah Jong box and poured out the tiles upon the table.1926, Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
- My usual mahjong kaki.2000, Dennis Wee, Sylvia Fong, Making Luck with Your Hands, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore, page 59
- A solitaire game using the same tiles, where the player wins by removing pairs of matching exposed tiles until none remain.
- Synonyms:
- mahjong solitaire
Interjection
- A call declaring a winning hand in the game of mahjong.
mahjong meaning in Tagalog, Arabic, Indonesian and Thai
mahjong in Tagalog
- game for four players
- madyong
mahjong in Arabic
- game for four players
- مَا جُونْغ mā jūnḡ
mahjong in Indonesian
- game for four players
- mahyong
mahjong in Thai
- game for four players
- ไพ่นกกระจอก pâi-nók-grà-jɔ̀ɔk
More languagesFewer languages
- mahjong in Vietnamese
- mạt chược
- mahjong in Myanmar
- မာကျောက် ma-kyauk
Examples of mahjong in a sentence
- While most of the country has spent the weekend counting hongbaos and mahjong tiles, those guys have been out there salvaging hongbaos and half of Thomson Road.2003, Neil Humphreys, “The Thief”, in Scribbles from the Same Island, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Editions, published 2006, →ISBN, page...
- Ho Sau-Mei, one of Hong Kong’s last mahjong tile carvers, is getting old.2025 July 27, Kathleen Magramo, “The game is almost over for one of Hong Kong’s last mahjong carvers”, in CNN, archived from the original...
Synonyms of mahjong
Forms of mahjong
| alternative form | majiang |
|---|---|
| alternative form | mah-jong |
| alternative form | mahjongg |
| alternative form | mah-jongg |
| alternative form | mah jongg |
| alternative form | Mah Jong |
Origin of mahjong
From Mandarin 麻將／麻将 (májiàng), derived from 麻雀 (máquè, “sparrow”) with a Wu diminutive suffix 兒／儿 /ŋ̍/.
Words formed from mahjong
Phrases with mahjong
Words that rhyme with mahjong
Questions about mahjong
- What does mahjong mean?
- Mahjong means a game (originally Chinese) for four players, using a collection of tiles divided into five or six suits.
- What is mahjong in Tagalog?
- Mahjong in Tagalog is madyong. See Mahjong meaning in Tagalog.
- How do you use mahjong in a sentence?
- While most of the country has spent the weekend counting hongbaos and mahjong tiles, those guys have been out there salvaging hongbaos and half of Thomson Road.
- What part of speech is mahjong?
- Mahjong can be a noun or an interjection.
- How do you pronounce mahjong?
- Mahjong is pronounced /mɑːˈd͡ʒɒŋ/.
Words near mahjong in the dictionary
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