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Hong Kong Taiwanese
HKT
Cross-comparison
partial — sources agree on some points and are silent or divided on others
| Source | Tiles | Hand | Flowers | Scoring | Payout |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [1] | 144, the same set as 13-tile mahjong, including the eight flowers: the four seasons 春夏秋冬 and four plants 梅蘭菊竹; some players add jokers | 16, the sixteen-tile game of the Hong Kong and Macau region | — | additive (加算法), because it has many fan types and many fan; contrasted explicitly with Guangdong mahjong, which multiplies because it has few patterns. Fan are unlimited | — |
- [2] NOT FOUND. Neither Sloperama's catalogue nor any Mahjong Wiki page fetched here carries an entry for Hong Kong Taiwanese or HKT. The chart's node rests on the Sloperama catalogue as its canonical source, but the label does not appear there
- [1] MULTI-PARENT: describes the game as a blend (糅合) of Hong Kong mahjong, authentic Taiwanese mahjong, Japanese mahjong and MCR, with fan counts far larger than authentic Taiwanese, contrasted with traditional 13-tile Clear Chapter (清章) play. Locally it is simply called Taiwanese mahjong, 台灣牌 or 港式台牌. It has a ready declaration called ding (叮) which, unlike Japanese riichi, needs neither a concealed hand nor a stake, and pays a bonus for winning within one turn; and a carry-over stake mechanism called la (拉). The article carries a single-source reliability warning dated March 2023, and cites a Hong Kong Mahjong Association league rules PDF from 2020
Reading it
No longer unsupported. Chinese Wikipedia carries a full article on 港式臺灣麻雀, the 16-tile game of Hong Kong and Macau, giving 144 tiles with eight flowers, a 16-tile hand, additive and unlimited fan, a ready declaration called ding and a carry-over stake called la, and citing a Hong Kong Mahjong Association league rules document. Two cautions. The article itself carries a single-source reliability warning, so it is one account rather than a consensus. And it contradicts the tree's shape: it describes the game as a blend of Hong Kong, authentic Taiwanese, Japanese and MCR rules, where the chart makes it simply a child of Taiwanese style. Its additive scoring is also the feature the article uses to contrast it with Guangdong, which the chart places on a different branch entirely.
Sources
Chinese Wikipedia: 港式臺灣麻雀 (Hong Kong-style Taiwanese Mahjong). cross-check checked 2026-09-18
The only encyclopedia treatment found of the 16-tile Hong Kong and Macau game. Describes it as a blend of Hong Kong, authentic Taiwanese, Japanese and MCR rules, with additive scoring, a ready declaration called ding, and a carry-over stake called la. The article itself carries a single-source reliability warning.
https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hant/%E6%B8%AF%E5%BC%8F%E5%8F%B0%E7%81%A3%E9%BA%BB%E5%B0%87
Only cited here · bibliography #66
Sloper, Tom. "FAQ 2b: Identifying a Mah-Jongg Variant." Sloperama. supporting 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
Mahjong Wiki. "Taiwanese Overview." mahjong.wikidot.com. canonical
Cited as the source for individual nodes in the chart's node table. Carries no bibliography or per-claim citations of its own; see the appendix on tracing the wiki.
http://mahjong.wikidot.com/rules:taiwanese-overview
Also cited on: Taiwanese style · bibliography #44