你会打麻将(play mah-jong)吗？你是资深麻友吗？你敢教老外打麻将吗？ 将“国粹”推向世界可是我们这些外语学习者的义务哦！那还等什么，马上就让老外们对麻将上瘾吧！
麻将牌：mah-jong, mah-jongg
棋牌室：Chess &Poker Room
筒子：the circle tiles
索子：the bamboo tiles
万子：the character tiles
番子：the honor tiles
花牌：flower tiles
上：claiming a tile to match a sequence
碰：claiming a tile to match a triplet
杠：claiming a tile for a quadruplet
和：claiming a tile to win
抽头：the kitty
筹码：counter; chip; dib
牌友：matching play
边张：side tiles
吃张：drawing
庄家：dealer
上家：opponent on the left
下家：opponent on the right
对门：opponent sitting opposite to one
三缺一：three players looking for one more player
跳牌：skipping
出张：discarding a tile
洗牌：shuffling the tiles
连庄：remaining the dealer
一对：one pair
一番：one time (in scoring)
一圈：a round
跟牌：following suit
进张：drawing a useful tile
对碰：waiting for two tiles to win; making two pairs
扣牌：holding up a tile
听牌：waiting for the one necessary tile to win
暗杠：drawing a tile by oneself, making four similar tiles of a kind and putting them face down
暗坎：concealing 3-tiles in order of a kind
八圈：eight rounds of play
缺一门：lacking a suit
抢杠：robbing a gong
单钓：waiting for one of the pair to win
单听：awaiting the only one necessary tile to win
地和：going out or winning a hand after drawing only one tile
吊牌：fishing; awaiting one’s winning tile
对对胡：winning with all paired tiles；all triplets
自摸：winning by one’s own draw；self-drawn
拦和：be won by one’s left or opposing opponent with the same tile one needs
平和：a win without points
鸡和：chicken hand
平和：common hand
大满贯：grand slam
杠上开花：drawing a tile, after a gang, from the end of the wall to win the game；added glory to a gong
七对：seven pairs
砌牌：forming the wall of stacks
清一色：all of one suit; flush; having all tiles in one suit
全字：pure characters
门(前)清：all concealed hand 十三幺：the thirteen orphans(1,9,and one of each character)；13 terminal tiles
天和：a natural win; a heavenly hand
地和：earthly hand
一条龙：a complete sequence from 1 to 9
混一色：mixed one suit
小三元：junior 3 chiefs
大三元：grand 3 chiefs
海底捞月：catching the moon from the bottom of the sea
小四喜：junior 4 happiness
大四喜：grand 4 happiness
清一色：pure one suit
字一色：all honor tiles
诈和：declaring a false win；falsely declaring a win
做相公：be unconscious of a shortage or surplus of tiles
大/小相公：long or short hand
