Chinese dominoes

Chinese dominoes are used in several tile-based games, namely, Tien Gow, Pai Gow, Tiu U and Kap Tai Shap. In Cantonese they are called "Gwat Pai" (骨牌), which literally means "bone tiles"; it is also the name of a northern Chinese game, where the rules are quite different from the southern Chinese game Tien Gow. References to Chinese domino tiles can be traced to writings from the Song Dynasty (AD 1120).

Deck Composition and Ranking

Each tile pattern in the Chinese domino set is made up of the outcome of a throw of two six-sided dice. Each combination is only used once, so there are 21 unique possible patterns. Eleven of these 21 unique patterns are repeated to make a total of 32 tiles in a Chinese dominoes set. The tile set consists of 32 tiles in two "suits" or groups called "military" and "civilian". The civilian suit was originally called the "Chinese" suit and the military suit was called the "barbarian" suit but was changed during the Qing dynasty (1644-1912) to avoid offending the ruling Manchus. There are no markings on the tiles to distinguish these suits; a player must simply remember which tiles belong to which group.

Pai

Pai or PAI may refer to:

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Pai (surname)

Pai (Konkani पै [pɵi]) is a common surname amongst the Gowd Saraswat Brahmins of India. Pai is known to be a prakrit of Pati or "Lord".

Families with the surname Pai, are Saraswat Brahmins who speak the Konkani language. The Pai were mainly ledger keepers.

The surname Pai comes from the word Konkani Prakit word paee meaning Lord. Families with the last name Pai are Saraswat Brahmins. It is believed that GSBs descended from Kashmir. They lived by the Saraswati River but were forced to move when there was a drought. These families branched out to Punjab, Gujarat, Goa, Maharashtra and various other locales where they continued to live. Those in Goa were once again forced to relocate to regions such as Mumbai & Coastal Gujarat, Coastal Karnataka & Kerala due to the Portuguese who embarked on their land.

The name is also in use among some Konkani Catholics who trace their ancestry to the Goud Saraswat Brahmins of Goa.

People

Pai River

The Pai River (Thai: แม่น้ำปาย, rtgs: Maenam Pai, Thai pronunciation: [mɛ̂ːnáːm paːj]) originates in the mountains of the Daen Lao Range, Pai District, Mae Hong Son Province, Thailand. The river flows first in a north-south direction and then in an east-west direction down to Mueang Mae Hong Son District and across the Thai/Burmese border. The river tributes the Salween River in Kayah State, Burma. It is 180 kilometres (110 mi) long.

Pai River is popular for whitewater rafting. Rapids on the river vary from class I to class V on the International Scale of River Difficulty and everything in between. The Pai River offers a scenic view of mountain forest and many choose to camp along the quiet river banks.

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