suit tiles![click to hear](/images/speaker.jpg)
Mah-jongg has 108 suit tiles: four matching sets of each of the nine circles, nine characters and nine bamboos.
characters ![click to hear](/images/speaker.jpg)
Each of the tiles depicting an ideogram, which represents numbers one through nine.
bamboos ![click to hear](/images/speaker.jpg)
Each of the tiles depicting bamboo shoots, with the first tile showing a bird.
circles ![click to hear](/images/speaker.jpg)
Each of the tiles depicting an ascending number of circles.