麻将的内涵在于通过随机抓牌在混乱中创造秩序。
The concept of mahjong is to create order out of chaos based on random drawing of tiles.

麻将实用词汇手册

麻将：mahjong /ma:'dʒɔŋ/

麻将的一张牌：a tile /tail/

打麻将：play mahjong

饼/筒：the circle/dots tiles

条：the bamboo tiles

万：the character tiles

番：the honor tiles （dragon tiles+ wind tiles）

（dragon tiles: red, green, white）

（wind tiles: east, south, west, north）

花牌：flower tiles

吃：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

筹码 counter/chip

边张 side tiles

吃张 drawing

出张 discarding a tile

上家 opponent on the left

下家 opponent on the right

自摸 winning by one's own draw/self-drawn

清一色 all of one suit/flush/having all tiles in one suit