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mahjong

Summary

mahjong is a tabletop game[1]. mahjong ranks in the top 2% of tabletop_game entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,242 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • mahjong's image is recorded as Mahjong game.jpg[3].
  • mahjong's instance of is recorded as tabletop game[4].
  • mahjong's instance of is recorded as tile-based game[5].
  • mahjong's instance of is recorded as board game[6].
  • mahjong's instance of is recorded as gambling[7].
  • mahjong's instance of is recorded as sports discipline[8].
  • mahjong's GND ID is recorded as 4133472-3[9].
  • mahjong's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85079817[10].
  • mahjong's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 12008217n[11].
  • mahjong's NDL Authority ID is recorded as 00567545[12].
  • mahjong's Commons category is recorded as Mahjong[13].
  • mahjong's Unicode character is recorded as 🀄[14].
  • mahjong's country of origin is recorded as China[15].
  • mahjong's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 8421[16].
  • +1900-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of mahjong[17].
  • mahjong's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04xqx[18].
  • mahjong's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph623201[19].
  • mahjong's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Mahjong[20].
  • mahjong's page banner is recorded as Wikivoyage Mahjong Banner.jpg[21].
  • mahjong's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300222791[22].
  • mahjong's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 795.34[23].
  • mahjong's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0281073[24].
  • mahjong's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/mah-jongg[25].
  • mahjong's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'zh-hant', 'text': '麻將'}[26].
  • mahjong's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'zh-hans', 'text': '麻将'}[27].

Why It Matters

mahjong ranks in the top 2% of tabletop_game entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,242 views/month).[2] mahjong has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] mahjong is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Related Entities

China

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . news.stanford.edu. Retrieved . news.stanford.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 20d ago · Yukkuri Shambis · 2026-04-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country of origin → —
    Subclass of → Q287618
    Country of origin → China
    Inception → —
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P279]]: [[Q287618]]"
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