mahjong

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

   My usual mahjong kaki.

   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

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

   1926, Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

   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.

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

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

   2025 July 27, Kathleen Magramo, “The game is almost over for one of Hong Kong’s last mahjong carvers”, in CNN, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2025

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

   Synonyms: mahjong solitaire

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