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mangan

Syllables: man·gan/ˈmɑːŋɡɑːn/

mangan noun: a win achieving five han, or three/four han with the required number of fu; worth 12,000 points if the winning player is on the East (dealer) side or 8,000 points otherwise.

Noun

mangan (plural mangan or mangans)

  1. (Japanese) A win achieving five han, or three/four han with the required number of fu; worth 12,000 points if the winning player is on the East (dealer) side or 8,000 points otherwise.
    • Even if she gets +8000 points with a mangan, she'll be at -1.2015, Ritz Kobayashi, “Hand 0: Showdown” (chapter 3), in anonymous translator, Saki, volume 1, Yen Press, →ISBN, page 75
    • Outside tournaments the chombo penalty is a reverse mangan payment: 4,000 to East, 2,000 to other players.2016, “Riichi: Rules for Japanese Mahjong, 2016 edition”, in mahjong-europe.org, European Mahjong Association, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2016, Chombo (section 3.4.6), page 15

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Mangan

Mangan (plural Mangans)

  1. A surname from Irish.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Mangan

Mangan

  1. A district of Sikkim, India.

Forms of mangan

Noun
pluralmangan
pluralmangans
Proper noun
pluralMangans

Origin of mangan

Borrowed from Japanese 満貫 (mangan), an orthographic borrowing from Mandarin 滿貫 /满贯 (mǎnguàn).

Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Mongáin (“descendant of Mongán”), a personal name derived from a diminutive form of mongach (“maned, long-haired”).

Questions about mangan

What does mangan mean?
Mangan means a win achieving five han, or three/four han with the required number of fu; worth 12,000 points if the winning player is on the East (dealer) side or 8,000 points otherwise.
What part of speech is mangan?
Mangan can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce mangan?
Mangan is pronounced /ˈmɑːŋɡɑːn/.
What is the plural of mangan?
The plural of mangan is mangan.

Words near mangan in the dictionary

  1. Mangaloreans
  2. mangals
  3. mangalsutra
  4. mangalsutras
  5. Mangaluru
  6. mangan
  7. mangan-
  8. mangan-amphibole
  9. Mangana
  10. manganandalusite
  11. manganapatite

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