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Kancolle Dictionary

Are listed a comprehensive list of most abreviations and acronyms used by the Kancolle community.

Abreviations & Acronyms

Abreviation		Meaning	Notes	Context
AA		Anti-Air		Combat
AACI		Anti-Air Cut-in		Combat
AAFD		Anti-Air Fire Directors		Equipment
AAR		Anti-Air Resistance		Equipment
AARB		Anti-Air Rocket Barrage		Combat
AD		Air Denial		Combat
AFP		Air Fighter Power		Combat
AGB		Icebreaker		Ship Type
AGDP		Arctic Gear & Deck Personnel		Equipment
AGL		Lighthouse tender		Ship Type
AGS		Survey ship		Ship Type
AI		Air Incapability		Combat
AK2		12.7cm Twin Gun Mount Model A Kai 2		Equipment
AK3		12.7cm Twin Gun Mount Model A Kai 3 (Wartime Modification) + Anti-Aircraft Fire Director		Equipment
AK4		Prototype Long-barrel 12.7cm Twin Gun Mount Model A Kai 4		Equipment
AO		Fleet Oiler / Replenishment Oiler		Ship Type
AP	AP	Air Parity		Combat
	AP	Air Power		Combat
	AP	Armor Piercing		Equipment
	AP	Transport Ships		Ship Type
APCI		AP shell Cut-In		Combat
AR	AR	Repair Ship		Ship Type
AR	AR	Action Report		Item
AS	AS	Submarine Tender		Ship Type
	AS	Artillery Spotting		Combat
	AS	Air State		Combat
	AS	Air Superiority		Combat
	AS+	Air Supremacy		Combat
ASDIC		Anti-Submarine Division supersonICs		Equipment
ASS		"Airstrike Supported Submarines" nodes	Alternative name to the Airstrike Supported Battle node	Combat
ASW		Anti-Submarine Warfare		Combat
AV		Seaplane Tender		Ship Type
BB		Battleship		Ship Type
BBCV		Aircraft Battleship	Informal code designating the Ise-class Kai Ni	Ship Type
BBV		Aviation Battleship		Ship Type
BC		"Battle Cruisers"	Only in the game for the Fleet menu's filter, mostly referring to the Kongou-class), the official code is "CC"	Ship Type
BK2		12.7cm Twin Gun Mount Model B Kai 2		Equipment
BK4		12.7cm Twin Gun Mount Model B Kai 4 (Wartime Modification) + Anti-Aircraft Fire Director		Equipment
BP		Blueprint		Item
CA		Heavy Cruiser		Ship Type
CAV		Aviation Cruiser		Ship Type
CCCI		Credit-Card Cut-In	A "joke cut-in" about paying to do something	Item
CD		Concentrated Deployment	Mostly referring to some equipment variations being packed together	Equipment
CDMG		Concentrated Deployment Machine Gun		Equipment
CEP		Communication Equipment & Personnel		Equipment
CF		Combined Fleet		Combat
CI		Cut-In	Special powerful attacks triggered when using a right set of specific gears	Combat
CK2		12.7cm Twin Gun Mount Model C Kai 2		Equipment
CK3		12.7cm Twin Gun Mount Model C Kai 3		Equipment
CK3H		12.7cm Twin Gun Mount Model C Kai 3 H		Equipment
CL		Light Cruiser		Ship Type
CLAA		Antiaircraft Cruiser		Ship Type
CLT		Torpedo Cruiser		Ship Type
CT	CT	Training Cruiser		Ship Type
CT	CT	Closing Torpedo Salvo		Combat
CTF		Carrier Task Force		Combat
CV	CV	Character Voice	Same as VA or Seiyuu	Ship Type
CV	CV	Aircraft Carrier	Standard Aircraft Carrier only in the game	Ship Type
CVB		Armored Aircraft Carrier / Armored Carrier		Ship Type
CVCI		Aircraft Carrier Cut-In		Combat
CVNCI		Aircraft Carrier Night Cut-In		Combat
CVE		Escort Carrier	An ASW specialized light aircraft carrier	Ship Type
CVL		Light Aircraft Carrier / Light Carrier		Ship Type
CVN		Night Aircraft Carrier	Not "nuclear CV" here	Ship Type
DA		Double Attack	Several cut-in types	Combat
DC		Depth Charge		Equipment
DCP		Depth Charge Projector		Equipment
DCR		Depth Charge Rack		Equipment
DD		Destroyer		Ship Type
DE		"Destroyer Escort"	This designates "Coastal Defense Ship" (Kaiboukan) in Kancolle	Ship Type
DK2		12.7cm Twin Gun Mount Model D Kai 2		Equipment
DK3		12.7cm Twin Gun Mount Model D Kai 3		Equipment
DLC		Daihatsu Landing Craft	Often designate all Landing Craft	Equipment
DM		Development Material		Item
DP		Dual-Purpose	For either Radars or High-Angle Guns, being both used for "air" and "surface" roles	Equipment
EO		Extra Operation	Maps coming after the "MO" in the world	General
FBB		Fast Battleship		Ship Type
FCA		Fleet Communication Antenna		Equipment
FCF		Fleet Command Facility	Sometimes designate all Command Facilities	Equipment
FCM		First Class Medal		Item
FF	FF	Friendly Fleet		Combat
FF	FF	Fast Fleet		Combat
FP	FP	Firepower		Combat
FP	FP	Fighter Power		Combat
FS		Flagship		General
GS		Great Success		General
GTRL		Gun-Torpedo-Radar-Lookout	A "New Type" cut-in setup	Combat
HA	HA	High-Altitude Interceptors		Combat
HA	HA	High-Angle Guns		Equipment
HMAS		Her/His Majesty's Australian Ship		Trivia
HMS		Her/His Majesty's Ship		Trivia
HNLMS		His/Her Netherlands Majesty's Ship		Trivia
HQ		Headquarter	Admiral's personal level	General
IC		Instant Construction Material		Item
IJA		Imperial Japanese Army		Trivia
IJN		Imperial Japanese Navy		Trivia
IM		Improvement Material		Item
IR		Instant Repair		Item
JA		Jet Assault		Combat
KBK		Kaiboukan		Ship Type
KC		Kantai Collection		Trivia
KMS		Kriegsmarine Ships	Nazi Germany Navy	Trivia
LM		Late Model	Mostly referring to revised equipment variations, being more capable	Equipment
LB		Land-Based	Generaly to designate land-base planes	Equipment
LBAS		Land-Based Air Squadron		Combat
LD		Last Dance	The last form of a map/boss, once the map HP bar is only 1 kill to be depleted/cleared	Combat
LFB		Large Flying Boat		Equipment
LHA		Amphibious Assault Ship		Ship Type
LoS		Line of Sight		Combat
LSC		Large Ship Construction		General
LST		Landing Ship, Tank		Ship Type
MN		Marine Nationale	French "National Navy"
MO		Main Operation	All main maps (other than EO)	General
NOAP	NOAP	Night Operation Aviation Personnel		Equipment
NOAP	NOAP+	Night Operation Aviation Personnel + Skilled Deckhands		Equipment
NSCM		Night Skilled Crew Member		Item
OA		Opening Airstrike		Combat
OASW		Opening ASW		Combat
OT		Opening Torpedo Salvo		Combat
Otorp		Opening Torpedo Salvo		Combat
RADAR		RAdio Detection And Ranging		Equipment
RAN		Royal Australian Navy		Trivia
RE		Reinforcement Expansion	Extra ship slot	Item
RL		Rocket Launcher	Mostly 12cm 30-tube Rocket Launcher & 12cm 30-tube Rocket Launcher Kai Ni, but can designate most "Rocket munitions"	Equipment
RLK2		12cm 30-tube Rocket Launcher Kai Ni		Equipment
RM		Regia Marina	Italian "Royal Navy"	Trivia
RN		Royal Navy		Trivia
RNN		Royal Netherlands Navy		Trivia
RP		Ranking Points		General
RSC		Resources		General
RNG		Random Number Generation		Trivia
SCAMP		Skilled Carrier-based Aircraft Maintenance Personnel	Not to be confused with the USS Scamp	Equipment
SCM		Skilled Crew Members		Item
SDP	SDP	Skilled Deck Personnels		Equipment
SDP	SDP+	Skilled Deck Personnel + Aviation Maintenance Hands		Equipment
SE		Support Expedition		Combat
SF		Striking Force Fleet		Combat
SFFCF		Striking Force Fleet Command Facility		Equipment
SFCF		Striking Force Fleet Command Facility		Equipment
SLO		Skilled Lookouts	Sometimes all Surface Ship Personnels	Equipment
SONAR		SOund Navigation And Ranging		Equipment
SPB		Seaplane Bomber		Equipment
SPF		Seaplane Fighter		Equipment
SPR		Seaplane Recon		Equipment
SS		Submarine		Ship Type
SSLO		Super SLO		Equipment
SSV		Aircraft Carrying Submarine		Ship Type
STF		Surface Task Force		Combat
TCI		Torpedo Cut-In		Combat
TCF		Transport Combined Fleet		Combat
TE		Transport Escort		Combat
TP	TP	Torpedo stat		Combat
	TP	Torpedo equipment		Equipment
	TP	Transport Points		Combat
TSLO		Torpedo Squadron Skilled Lookouts		Equipment
TSSL		Torpedo Squadron Skilled Lookouts		Equipment
TTK		Teitoku	Japaneses for "Admiral"	Trivia
USN		United States Navy		Trivia
USS		United States Ship		Trivia
VA		Voice Actress	Same as CV or Seiyuu	Trivia
WG		WG42 (Wurfgerät 42)		Equipment
WG42		WG42 (Wurfgerät 42)		Equipment

Abbreviations, Specific terms & Trivia

Alongside acronyms, you may encounter some abbreviations, specific terms, and trivia, some being Japanese terms or names, more practical names referring to specific in-game features, or even real-life Trivia.

See also the disambiguation pages for clarification on equipment and mechanics sharing a similar name.

► Disambiguations

Algebra - TBM-3W+3S, because of its name looking like a math formula.
AirMat - New Model Aviation Development Material
ArmMat - New Model Armament Material
AvMat - New Model Aviation Development Material
Big Seven - Refers to the first 7 battleships built to carry the biggest naval guns (>40 cm) allowed by the Washington Naval Treaty, namely, the Nagato-class, Nelson-class, and Colorado-class.
Blow torches - Instant Construction Material
Bucket - Instant Repair Material
Bulldozer - Construction Corps
BURNING LOVE - Notable line from Kongou
C2 - Studio/Dojin circle behind Kancolle
Carrot - Night Skilled Crew Member, the fairy eating one
Chi-Ha - Type 97 Medium tank Japanese tank's name.
Choujuusenchihou (長10cm砲) - Akizuki-class's pet, similar to Rensouhous
Chuuha - "moderately damaged", orange damaged
Cut-In - special powerful attacks, triggered when using a right set of specific gears
DameCon - Emergency Repair Personnel
DameGami‎ - Emergency Repair Goddess
DameKami‎ - Emergency Repair Goddess
Debuff - A mechanic that weaken some event bosses.
DevMat - Development Materials
Fighter-Mulle - The process of equipping a ship with only "fighters", to gain air superiority (AS).
Flamethrower - Instant Construction Material
Gingusa - Ginga (Egusa Squadron)
Green T - Crossing the T (Advantage) Engagement
GunMat - New Model Gun Development Material
Hole Punch - Reinforcement Expansion
Ho-Ni - Toku Daihatsu Landing Craft + Type 1 Gun Tank Japanese tank's name.
I-Go - Daihatsu Landing Craft (Type 89 Medium Tank & Landing Force) Japanese tank's name.
Ka-Mi - Special Type 2 Amphibious Tank Japanese tank's name.
Ka-Tsu - Special Type 4 Amphibious Tank
Japanese tank's name.
KancoDex - Library (Kancolle's Pokedex), sometimes, just KanDex.
Kancolle - Kantai Collection
Kanmusu - "kantai musume", ship-girl
Kiriban - Ranking "Lucky Tiers"
Kuso - "Bad" or "Shitty", a common insult toward admirals (notably from Akebono), for being careless or even reckless. In the community, it mainly designates players using strats involving low morale or even sinking girls.
MelonMat - New Model Armament Material, referencing the Yuubari fairy on it.
Nuke - Anti-installation setup using a tank, a DLC, and artillery, doing "nuclear-like" damage to installations (up to 9999 damage).
Penguin - The "Failure Box", notably featuring a penguin/toucan-like bird, and apearing each time a ship modernization or equipment craft is failled.
Poi? (っぽい？) - Catchphrase of Yuudachi, meaning "maybe", referring to Ironbottom Sound.
ProtoPult - Prototype Flight Deck Catapult
Red T - Crossing the T (Disadvantage) Engagement.
Recon - "Reconnaissance" planes, referring to both yellow "Reconnaissance Aircraft", and "Reconnaissance Seaplanes", depending on the context.
Rensouhou (連装砲) - A Danbo-like robot appearing with some ships, namely Shimakaze, Amatsukaze, and Helena.
Rocket - A form of propulsion, different from the usual propeller blades or turbojets (see here for rockets ingame).
RocketMat - New Model Rocket Development Material
RoSa - Japanese AA rockets: 12cm 30-tube Rocket Launcher & 12cm 30-tube Rocket Launcher Kai Ni
Sanshiki - "Type 3 Shell" in Japanese, their AA Shells
Screw - Improvement Materials
Secretary - The flagship of the first fleet, the girl on the main menu.
Seiyuu - Japanese Character Voice/Voice Actress
Shirei-kan - "Commander"
Shouha - "lightly damaged", yellow damaged
Synergy - Used to describe the positive effect given by equipping certain equipment together, mainly referring to ASW Synergy, Speed Synergy, and Fit Bonuses.
Spoon - The Vanguard Formation, named after its shape.
Tags - Ship Locking in events.
Taiha - "heavily damaged", red damaged
Taitei - Type 2 Large Flying Boat, name mostly used by Akitsushima.
Tanaka - Kensuke Tanaka, creator and original programmer of Kancolle.
Tank - can refer to "Landing Tanks" (landing craft + tank), to Amphibious Tanks, or Landing Forces. See Tanks for more details.
Teitoku - "Admiral"
Tenryuu Kindergarten - A common theme where Tenryuu and a destroyers' escort are regularly used in expeditions to optimize resources consumption. The official 4-Koma also shows Tenryuu being a good children (DD) caretaker.
Torches - Instant Construction Material
Touch - General name used for Special Attacks.
Yasen - "Night Battle"
！すでのな - One of Inazuma's lines written "backward", in traditional Japanese format. Also appears as a wall scroll on the furniture page.

Girls nicknames

"Official" nicknames

Names often used either by the devs or the girls themselves, to humanize "number namings" of some ships.

Furei - I-201
Fuufu - Kaiboukan No.22
Fuumi - I-203
Goya - I-58
Hachi - I-8
Hitomi - I-13
Iku - I-19
Imuya - I-168
Iyo - I-14
Lebe - Z1 in-game nickname
Leberecht Maass - Z1 official name
Maass - Z1 most common abreviation
Max - Z3 in-game nickname
Max Schultz - Z3 official name
Miimu - I-36
Mito - Kaiboukan No.30
Momochi‎ - No.101 Transport Ship
Nimu - I-26
Ro - Ro-500
Shi Chan - I-41, a lesser official nicnamed, used by I-36
Shioi - I-401
Shion - I-400
Yona - I-47
Yotsu - Kaiboukan No.4
Yuu - U-511

Informal nicknames

Names mostly used by the community, ranging from abbreviations and deformations of the original names, or from other trivia facts.

101-chan - No.101 Transport Ship
2-4-11 - Naka. 2-4-11 refers to the fuel-ammo-steel combination received from her scrap (if scrapping with her default equipment).
ABKM - Abukuma
Beaver - Yukikaze's nickname based on her appearance. Japanese call her "Hamster".
Bep - Verniy, due to her writing in Cyrillic (Верный).
Bisckuit - Bismarck
Bucky - Fubuki, notably used by Kongou in the Anime.
CdC - Conte di Cavour
Cranes - Shoukaku-class, both being named after cranes.
Dragons - Souryuu, Hiryuu, Unryuu, Ryuujou, and Ryuuhou, all being named after dragons.
Ducks - Akizuki-classn the "zuki" sounding like "ducky" in Japanese
Goto - Gotland
Hotel - Yamato, reference to her being called that way by Japanese sailors, since she spent more time garrisoning rather than combating.
Horny - Hornet, sometime Horny Maru
Kamo - Akitsushima
KMKZ - Kamikaze
KTKM - Kitakami. Wordplay from Japanese netslang KTKR which is read as "kita kore", literally "it's here", sort of like "woohoo I got it" or "I've been waiting for this!".
KWKZ - Kawakaze
Lady Lex - Lexington
Melon-chan - Yuubari's nickname due to her uniform color scheme and general resemblance to a melon as well as the City of Yuubari, on the namesake Yuubari River, which is well known for its melons.
Nagamon - Nagato's name "長門" 2nd kanji, "門", can be pronounced as mon. This name contrasts Nagato's seriousness with the silly and cute things she is usually depicted doing.
Nagamutsu - Fusion of Nagato and Mutsu names, designating the class or both of them.
NGNM - Naganami
Potatoes - Every characters drawn by Shibafu (しばふ), referring to the simple "potatoes-like" shape of their face.
Pudding - Prinz Eugen, due to her name pronouciation in Japanese
SKK - Shoukaku
SMKZ - Shimakaze
Snail - Mutsu
Sodak - South Dakota
Strawberry - Harusame, referring to her hair color.
Vicky - Victorious
Whales - Refer to Submarine Tenders having the kanji "鯨" meaning whale in their name.
Yamasushi - Fusion of Yamato and Musashi names, designating the class or both of them.
YKKZ - Yukikaze
YMKZ - Yamakaze
Zekamashi (ぜかまし) - Shimakaze's name read backward (in traditional Japanese, characters are read right-to-left). Found on one of the Rensouhou-chan's lifebuoys.
ZKMS - Zekamashi (Shimakaze)
ZKK - Zuikaku

See here [1] for more informal ships nicknames.

Abyssals nicknames

In addition to the following list, many Abyssal bosses are called by the name of the Kanmusu they represent.

ACH - Aircraft Carrier Hime
ACP - Aircraft Carrier Princess
BRS nicknames :
- Black Rick Shooter - Heavy Cruiser Ri-Class Kai Flagship
- Black Ruck Shooter - Battleship Ru-Class Kai Flagship
- Black Wock Shooter - Standard Carrier Wo-Class Kai Flagship
CVH - CV Hime
DJ Hime - Supply Depot Princess, due to her look.
Goblin - For "Imp" or "Gnome", see here
Gnome - For "Imp" or "Goblin", see here
Hime - Princess in Japanese (姫), common to most bosses
Hoppou - Northern Princess, also known as "Dutch Harbor" & "Hoppou-chan" (北方 = 'Hoppou' = Northern).
Imp - For "Gnome" or "Goblin", see here
Installation - Abyssals representing land-based infrastructure instead of ships, being immune to some attacks like torpedoes, but weaker against specialized equipment, see here.
Kitanda - Air Defense Princess, due to her mocking introduction lines.
Megane Hime - Airfield Princess Patrol Aircraft Deployment, as she wears glasses.
Oni - Demon or Ogre in Japanese (鬼), common to most sub-bosses
Pillbox - A special kind of installation, initially Artillery Imp only.
PT - PT boats (Patrol Torpedo boat), a type of warship, exclusive to abyssals so far.
PT Imp - PT Imp Pack
Rice Hime - American Destroyer Princess, a pun with her kanji reading.
SDH - Supply Depot Hime
SDP - Supply Depot Princess
Sub Loli - New Submarine Princess
Wanko - Harbour Princess (港湾棲姫 > Kō-wan seiki > Wanko)

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