mahjongとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• majiang
• mah-jong
• mahjongg, mah-jongg, mah jongg
• Mah Jong

語源

From Mandarin 麻將／麻将 (májiàng), derived from 麻雀 (máquè, “sparrow”) with a Wu diminutive suffix 兒／儿 /ŋ̍/.

発音

• IPA: /mɑːˈd͡ʒɒŋ/, /mɑːˈʒɒŋ/
• (米国発音) IPA: /mɑˈd͡ʒɔŋ/, /mɑˈʒɔŋ/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA: /mɑˈd͡ʒɑŋ/, /mɑˈʒɑŋ/
• 韻: -ɒŋ

名詞

mahjong (uncountable)

1. A game (originally Chinese) for four players, using a collection of tiles divided into five or six suits.
   • 1926, Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd:

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

   • 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:

     My usual mahjong kaki.

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

     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.

   • 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 July 2025:

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

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

同意語

• (a solitaire game): mahjong solitaire

派生語

• riichi mahjong

参考

• Appendix:Unicode/Mahjong Tiles

間投詞

mahjong

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

使用する際の注意点

Among players of the Japanese variant of mahjong, it is more common to use the Japanese-derived terms ron and tsumo.