Talk:流局

Japanese
Is this a verb or a noun? RcAlex36 (talk) 04:29, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
 * In this form it is a noun, but you can add on a suffix to turn it into a verb, in which case it becomes 流局する. As for borrowing, it definitely came from Chinese, but it's not a phonetic borrowing. In this case, Japanese just took the Chinese characters, but used the Japanese pronunciation of those same Chinese characters, so I guess you could all it orthographic borrowing. The dog2 (talk) 04:32, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Please confirm. RcAlex36 (talk) 04:33, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
 * It sounds correct to me. The alternative is that Chinese (orthographically) borrowed 流局 from Japanese. —Suzukaze-c (talk) 04:37, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
 * It's much more likely to be Japanese borrowing from Chinese, since mahjong is originally a Chinese game that spread to Japan. The dog2 (talk) 04:39, 19 October 2020 (UTC)