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Tien Gow is the name of a Chinese trick-taking gambling game for 4 players. The game is played with a set of Chinese dominoes. Heaven is the top rank tile of the civilian suit; Nine is the top rank tile of the military suit of the domino set. "Tien Gow" is sometimes spelled Tin Kau, and is the transliteration of two Chinese characters (天九) in Cantonese language|Cantonese: http://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/cgi-bin/agrep-lindict?query=%a4%d1&category=wholerecord Heaven and http://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/cgi-bin/agrep-lindict?query=%a4%45&category=wholerecord Nine. In Mandarin, it is pronounced as Tian1Jiu3.
Category:Chinese dominoes Category:Trick-taking card games game-stub This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Tien Gow".
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