mahjong

• majiang
• mah-jong
• mahjongg, mah-jongg, mah jongg
• Mah Jong

From Mandarin 麻將／麻将 (májiàng), derived from 麻雀 (máquè, “sparrow”) with a Wu diminutive suffix /ŋ̍/.

• IPA^(key): /mɑːˈd͡ʒɒŋ/, /mɑːˈʒɒŋ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mɑˈd͡ʒɔŋ/, /mɑˈʒɔŋ/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /mɑˈd͡ʒɑŋ/, /mɑˈʒɑŋ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɒŋ

mahjong (uncountable)

2. A game (originally Chinese) for four players, using a collection of tiles divided into five or six suits.
   • 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:

     My usual mahjong kaki.

   • 2003, Neil Humphreys, “The Thief”, in Scribbles from the Same Island, Singapore: Marshall Cavendish Editions, published 2006, →ISBN, page 185:

     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.

   • 2025 July 27, Kathleen Magramo, “The game is almost over for one of Hong Kong’s last mahjong carvers”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Ho Sau-Mei, one of Hong Kong’s last mahjong tile carvers, is getting old.

4. A solitaire game using the same tiles, where the player wins by removing pairs of matching exposed tiles until none remain.

• (a solitaire game): mahjong solitaire

• riichi mahjong

• Appendix:Unicode/Mahjong Tiles

mahjong

2. A call declaring a winning hand in the game of mahjong.

Among players of the Japanese variant of mahjong, it is more common to use the Japanese-derived terms ron and tsumo.

Orthographic borrowing from English mahjong, from Mandarin 麻將／麻将 (májiàng).

• IPA^(key): /maːˈjɔŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɔŋ

mahjong n (uncountable)

1. mahjong

mahjong

1. mahjong, a call declaring a winning hand in the game of mahjong.

From English mahjong, from Cantonese 麻將／麻将 (maa4 zoeng3).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑhdʒoŋ/, [ˈmɑ̝x.dʒo̞ŋ]
• Rhymes: -ɑhdʒoŋ

mahjong

1. mahjong (game for four)
2. mahjong (solitaire)

• “mahjong”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

From English mahjong, from Mandarin 麻將／麻将 (májiàng), derived from 麻雀 (máquè, “sparrow”) with a Wu diminutive suffix /ŋ̍/.

mahjong m (uncountable)

1. mahjong (Chinese tile game)

Unadapted borrowing from English mahjong, from Chinese 麻將 / 麻将 (májiàng).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaxt͡ʃon/ [ˈmax.t͡ʃõn]
  • Rhymes: -axtʃon
• IPA^(key): /ˈmat͡ʃon/ [ˈma.t͡ʃõn]
  • Rhymes: -atʃon

mahjong m (uncountable)

1. mahjong (Chinese tile game)

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Borrowed from English mahjong, from Chinese 麻將 / 麻将 (májiàng).

mahjong c

1. mahjong (Chinese tile game)

• mahjong in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker