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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. 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.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A game (originally Chinese) for four players, using a collection of tiles divided into five or six suits.
  2. n. A solitaire game using the same tiles.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A Chinese game played by 4 people with 144 tiles.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. Chinese game played by 4 people with 144 tiles

Etymologies

  1. From Cantonese 麻將 / 麻将 (Jyutping: maa4 zoeng3, Yale: ma4 jeung3), standard Mandarin: 麻將 / 麻将 (májiàng). (Wiktionary)
  2. Chinese (Mandarin) má jiàng : má, spotted + jiàng, main piece in Chinese chess. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Saki herself is returning to form and playing a kind of mahjong that seems to surpass even Koromo's control over the other players.”

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  • “Saki launched some kind of mahjong craze among the anime-watching population, as well.”

    Anime Nano!

  • “More and more minigames have been added in the meantime, each with their own in-game bonus: there's a whole host of casino games, bowling lanes and batting cages, traditional Japanese pursuits such as mahjong, shogi, & karaoke, and finally a Hostess Club where protagonist Kiryu can either patronize the club and 'date' the various hostesses or help manage the place to discover new talent.”

    GayGamer.net

  • “At the Baoshan depot, clothes dried on makeshift lines as drivers snapped mahjong tiles in the cheap motel rooms that surrounded it and one driver's son shouted from behind a plastic mask of a Chinese folk hero.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Truckers Idle Rigs in Shanghai

  • “Paul Pierce, Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett have a plasma in their Airstream trailer; they're on their way to Yuma, Ariz., for a mahjong tournament.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Your NBA Playoff Questions Answered

  • “My mother was in a bowling league, played mahjong, waited for my father to come home from work, got her hair done every Friday at the beauty parlor, and went for manicures.”

    Simon & Schuster: History of a Suicide

  • “Now I meet other foreigner newcomers with many different interests, including not only anime but also mahjong, the Japanese language, graphic design, and even boy bands.”

    The Huffington Post: Jared Braiterman: "Do You Really Like Living Here?" A Foreigner's Perspective on Tokyo

  • “Before she entered Rutgers University's prestigious six-year pharmacy program, Molly Wei was known as a sweet, quiet and smart girl with a love of mahjong ....”

    The Huffington Post: Molly Wei Feels 'Attacked,' Friend Says

  • “Before she entered Rutgers University's prestigious six-year pharmacy program, Molly Wei was known as a sweet, quiet and smart girl with a love of mahjong.”

    The Huffington Post: Molly Wei Feels 'Attacked,' Friend Says

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  1. mah-jongg

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  1. board game

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