mah¡jong also mah¡jongg (mä’zhÅng’, -zhông’) pronunciation

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 jià ng : má, spotted + jià ng, main piece in Chinese chess.]