FromJapanese吃(chī)
chii (pluralchiis)
- (Japanese mahjong) Acall for forming a run of three consecutive tiles of the same suit using a discarded tile.
- Synonym:chow
Among English-speaking players of the Japanese variant of mahjong, chii is more commonly used than the original English termchow. Unlike chow, chii is not typically used to refer to a group of three consecutive tiles, which is usually called asequence instead.
mahjong: a call for a set of three consecutive tiles
- Chinese:
- Cantonese:上(soeng5)
- Mandarin:吃(chī)
- Japanese:チー (ja)(chī),吃 (ja)(chī)
- Korean:츠(cheu),샹(syang)
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chii
- Rōmaji transcription ofちい
FromProto-Mixtec*tìxí.
chii
- belly
chii
- under
- inside
- Beaty de Farris, Kathryn; et al. (2012),Diccionario básico del mixteco de Yosondúa, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”;46)[1] (in Spanish), third edition,Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages5–6
