Traditional Chinese names are shown alongside pinyin and English so you can learn the game the classical way — every tile in the app also reads its full English name on hover.
Three suits of 1–9, four winds, and three dragons — four copies of each.
A standard winning hand is four sets + one pair. Special hands include Seven Pairs · 七對 qī duì and Thirteen Orphans · 十三么 shí sān yāo — all terminals & honors plus a pair.
Call Mahjong · 糊 hú to declare your win.
Points are counted in faan. Below is every common pattern with an example hand — melds are grouped, with the pair on the right as the "eyes."
Any legal 4-sets-plus-a-pair win. Base point every winner earns.
Every set is a chow (run). No pungs, no kongs, no honor pair.
Won without ever calling a tile from another player — fully hidden.
You draw your own winning tile from the wall instead of claiming it.
A triplet of any dragon (red 中, green 發, or white 白).
Pung of your seat wind or the round's prevailing wind. Both = +2.
Seven distinct pairs — a special hand shape (no sets required).
Every set is a pung or kong — no chows anywhere in the hand.
One suit only, plus any honor tiles (winds and dragons).
Two dragon pungs plus a pair of the third dragon.
Pungs of all three dragons — red, green, and white.
Every tile in one suit, no honors at all.
Only winds and dragons — no suited tiles at all.
One of each terminal (1s and 9s of every suit) and every honor, plus a pair of any of them.