mahjong

 

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

From Mandarin 麻將／麻将 (májiàng).

• 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)

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

• Appendix:Unicode/Mahjong Tiles

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

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

mahjong

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

• “mahjong”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

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)

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

mahjong c

1. mahjong (Chinese tile game)

• mahjong in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker