塔吉克族
Knucklebones in Central Asian cultures use the astragalus of sheep or goat or the calcaneus of wolves. They are known as "shagai" among Mongolians; "chükö" among the Kyrgyz people; "kajik" among the Tuvan people; "asyk" among the Kazakh people; "ashyk" among Turkish people; "bujulbozi" among Tajik people; and "oshuq" among the Manchu people. They are used in games, fortune-telling, and as musical instruments. In Central Asian knucklebones, each side of the astragalus has a name (called "horse", "camel", "sheep", "goat", or "cow") and have value in divination as well as dice throwing. There are multiple kinds of games played with knucklebones, including catching thrown pieces on the back of the hand, flicking the pieces into each other on the ground like marbles, tossing another object and gathering pieces, and so on. It can be played with individual players or teams by both children and adults and are common entertainments in cultural festivals. The Mongolian "shagai" is inscribed in the List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2014.