Nanyang variants

Descends into

• Singapore style — 148 tiles, animal flowers
• Malaysian 3-player — 84 tiles, one suit
• Malaysian 4-player — 164 tiles, 24 flowers
• Filipino style — 16-tile hand, honours as flowers
• Vietnamese classical — 160 tiles, 8 jokers
• Pong — Malaya, 120 tiles, Dobree 1955

Cross-comparison

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• [1] Sloperama catalogues the individual Southeast Asian variants but uses no grouping term 'Nanyang' and asserts no common parent for them
• [2] the wiki's family tree is the chart's stated source for this grouping; the chart itself draws the link dashed and states that no source establishes the descent

Reading it

Sloperama catalogues each Southeast Asian variant separately and never groups them or asserts a common parent; the grouping term does not appear. This is consistent with the chart drawing the link dashed, and confirms that the grouping is an organising device rather than a sourced lineage.

Sources

1. 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

2. Mahjong Wiki. "Family Tree and Timeline." mahjong.wikidot.com. canonical checked 2026-09-18

   The decade-by-decade timeline and the branch structure this chart follows, including the caveat that each variant's evolution has been cross-cultural.

   http://mahjong.wikidot.com/

   Also cited on: Chinese classical, Shanghai / Hong Kong new style, Mainland regionals, Korean traditional · bibliography #7