Mahjong is a tile game of forming sets, from China. Play mahjong, a mahjong set, a game of mahjong.
Four players draw and discard from a wall of a hundred and forty-four tiles, trying to complete a hand of sets — it is closer to rummy than to anything else. The solitaire matching game on computers shares the tiles and nothing else. The name means sparrow.
1nounmahjongA Chinese tile game of forming sets.
“My grandmother plays mahjong with her friends every Thursday afternoon.”
mahjong is a game.
From Chinese, where the game's name derives from a word meaning sparrow, perhaps from the clatter of the tiles.
From cmn - 麻將, derived from 麻雀 with a Wu diminutive suffix 兒.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA