Meaning of mahjong | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A game (originally Chinese) for four players, using a collection of tiles divided into five or six suits.
   uncountable
2. A solitaire game using the same tiles, where the player wins by removing pairs of matching exposed tiles until none remain.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Miss Ganett drank coffee whilst Caroline got out the Mah Jong box and poured out the tiles upon the table.”

“My usual mahjong kaki.”

“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.”

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

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