Mahjong Compendium

Proto-mahjong Chinese classical Shanghai / Hong Kong new style Mainland regionals Fujian style

Fujian style

124 tiles, winds as flowers

Caveat from the source chart

Rests on a single informant report.

Cross-comparison

single-source — only one source was found; nothing independent confirms it

SourceTilesHandFlowersScoringPayout
[1]124 (3 suits, 4 winds, no dragons)13, out on 14none; winds treated as flower tiles and replaced when acquired; a wild tile from the back of the wall serves as jokercontributor Chris Jacques: 'The scoring system is beyond me'
  • [1] Sloperama separately records that Dragon Chang says a style similar to Filipino is played in Fuzhou (Fukien)

Reading it

124 tiles, winds as flowers and a wild tile as joker match the chart exactly. But it rests on one contributor who says openly that he does not understand the scoring, and the Fuzhou entry on the same page appears to have borrowed this description. Treat the tile count as the only firm part.

Sources

  1. Sloper, Tom. "FAQ 2b: Identifying a Mah-Jongg Variant." Sloperama. canonical checked 2026-09-18

    Tile counts, hand sizes, flower handling and scoring for roughly 50 named variants. Primary source for most leaf nodes in this chart.

    https://www.sloperama.com/mjfaq/mjfaq02b.html

    Also cited on: Chinese archaic, Chinese pre-classical, Chinese classical, Shanghai / Hong Kong new style, Hong Kong old style, Modern HKOS and 43 more · bibliography #1

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