<entry id="2182882" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>2754270</ent_seq>
<k_ele>
<keb>塔子</keb>
</k_ele>
<k_ele>
<keb>搭子</keb>
</k_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>ターツ</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<xref type="see" seq="2752770">順子・シュンツ</xref>
<field>&mahj;</field>
<lsource xml:lang="chi"/>
<gloss>chow missing one tile</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2012-10-22 07:38:37" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>Marcus</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Marcus Richert</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>daijs nikk</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2012-10-24 06:10:47" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>Marcus</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Marcus Richert</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_diff>@@ -12,0 +12,1 @@
+&lt;lsource xml:lang="chi"/&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2012-10-25 04:27:18" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>pupchurch</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Paul Upchurch</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>May be consecutive, or may have one space in between.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A1%94%E5%AD%90#.E6.90.AD.E5.AD.90
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/keyword/%C5%E3%BB%D2
http://gatoh.sakura.ne.jp/mjrule/mjrule04.html</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -12,0 +12,1 @@
+&lt;xref type="see" seq="2752770"&gt;順子・シュンツ&lt;/xref&gt;
@@ -13,1 +14,1 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;two consecutive suited tiles (mahjong)&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;chow missing one tile (mahjong)&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2012-10-25 05:34:57" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2014-12-21 04:39:24" stat="A">
<upd_uid>rene</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Rene Malenfant</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_diff>@@ -12,0 +13 @@
+&lt;field&gt;&amp;mahj;&lt;/field&gt;
@@ -14 +15 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;chow missing one tile (mahjong)&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;chow missing one tile&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-04-05 14:50:20" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Stephen Kraus</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>for example, used on this page by kindai mahjong (famous mahjong magazine)
https://kinmaweb.jp/mahjong-yougo/aryanmen

also jp wikipedia (https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9D%A2%E5%AD%90_(%E9%BA%BB%E9%9B%80)#%E6%90%AD%E5%AD%90)
"搭子（ターツ）は、順子を構成する3枚の内1枚が欠けた2枚組のことである。表記揺れとして塔子と書かれることもある。"

it sounds like 搭 may even be the preferred kanji, although the n-gram counts don't agree for some reason.

Google N-gram Corpus Counts
塔子	31160
ターツ	2073
搭子	1527</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -5,0 +6,3 @@
+&lt;/k_ele&gt;
+&lt;k_ele&gt;
+&lt;keb&gt;搭子&lt;/keb&gt;
@@ -12 +14,0 @@
-&lt;xref type="see" seq="2752770"&gt;順子・シュンツ&lt;/xref&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2022-04-06 01:14:01" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_refs>Daijisen only has 塔子.</upd_refs>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>