majiang

See also: májiàng

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 麻將／麻将 (májiàng).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mɑ.d͡ʒɒŋ/ (the same as mahjong), or perhaps Sinicized IPA(key): /mɑ.t͡ʃ(j)ɑŋ/

Noun

majiang (uncountable)

  1. Alternative spelling of mahjong

Translations
mahjong — see mahjong

References
  1. “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China‎, Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 476, 482: “The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, […] Ma-chiang (Majiang) 麻將”
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