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mah-jongg

[mah-jawng, -jong, -zhawng, -zhong]
–noun
1. a game of Chinese origin usually played by four persons with 144 dominolike pieces or tiles marked in suits, counters, and dice, the object being to build a winning combination of pieces.
–verb (used without object)
2. to win a game of mah-jongg.
Also, mah-jong.


Origin:
1920–25; < dial. Chin; cf. Guangdong dial. màh-jéuk, Chin máquè lit., sparrow (depicted on the first tile of a set), equiv. to hemp + què bird
mah·jong also mah·jongg   (mä'zhŏng', -zhông')   
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.

[Chinese (Mandarin) má jiàng : , spotted + jiàng, main piece in Chinese chess.]
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