Ze Tian Ji Chapter 842

In the game of mahjong, one attempts to form a winning hand from tiles that one has drawn and from tiles that other players discard. When taking a tile that another player discards, called ‘stealing’, the player must announce the hand that they are forming by stealing the tile. A ‘chi’, ‘吃’, which means ‘eat’, means that the player is completing a set of consecutive numbered tiles in the same suit. A ‘peng’, ‘碰’, which means ‘bump’, means that the player is completing a three of a kind.