Glossary

Class classification

All of ship class codes on the list are based on USN Hull Classification Codes.

Terms	In-game Code	Japanese Name		English Name
		Kanji	Romaji
DD	駆逐	駆逐艦	Kuchikukan	Destroyer
SS	潜	潜水艦	Sensuikan	Submarine
SSV	潜母	潜水空母	Sensuikūbo	Submarine Aircraft Carrier
CL	軽巡	軽巡洋艦	Kei Jun'yōkan	Light Cruiser
CLT	雷巡	重雷装巡洋艦	Jūraisō Jun'yōkan	Torpedo Cruiser
CA	重巡	重巡洋艦	Jū Jun'yōkan	Heavy Cruiser
CAV	航巡	航空巡洋艦	Kōkū Jun'yōkan	Aviation Cruiser
AV	水母	水上機母艦	Suijōkibokan	Seaplane Tender
CVB/CV/CVL	-	正規空母	Sei'ki kūbo	Fleet Carrier
CVL	軽母	軽空母	Kei kūbo	Light Aircraft Carrier
CV	航	航空母艦	Kōkū bokan	Standard Aircraft Carrier
CV	装母	装甲空母	Sōkō kūbo	Armored Aircraft Carrier
BB	戦	戦艦	Senkan	Battleship
FBB	戦	高速戦艦	Kōsoku Senkan	Fast Battleship
BBV	航戦	航空戦艦	Kōkū Senkan	Aviation Battleship
LHA	揚陸	ドック型揚陸艦	Dokkugata Yōrikukan	Amphibious Assault Ship
AR	工	工作艦	Kōsakukan	Repair Ship
AS	潜母艦	潜水母艦	Sensui bokan	Submarine Tender

Note:

• Fast battleships share the same hull classification with slow Battleships.
• Terms "Kūbo" (空母) is a shorthand for "Kōkū bokan" (航空母艦), which means "Aircraft Carrier".
• In-game, the cards and encyclopedia have the ship class English Name, some are rendered differently from above. The exceptions are:
  • "Aircraft Carrying Submarine" instead of "Submarine Aircraft Carrier"
  • "Aircraft Cruiser" instead of "Aviation Cruiser"
  • "Seaplane Carrier" instead of "Seaplane Tender"
  • "Aircraft Carrier" instead of "Standard Aircraft Carrier"
  • "Aircraft Carrier" instead of "Armored Aircraft Carrier"
  • "Battleship" instead of "Fast Battleship"
• There is actually no hull classification code for armored carriers, but Kancolle-fans keep using CVB which actually was for big aircraft carriers like Shinano.

General

API link

Method to play the game without having to access the official DMM website. See Play without VPN/Proxy for detailed information.

Crossing the T

Classic naval strategy in which a line of warships cross in front of a line formation of enemy ships, allowing the crossing line to bring all their guns to bear while receiving fire from only the forward guns of the enemy. Gameplay wise, when your fleet crosses the enemy fleet, BOTH sides (counter-intuitively) gain a significant increase in damage dealt. When the opponent crosses your fleet, BOTH sides gain a signficiant damage decrease.

Docking

For more information on this topic, see Docking.

Allow your damaged ships to be repaired to full health. The repair, also known as "bath" requires steel and fuel, and will take "some" time to complete. You can use the Instant repair item/Bucket (高速修復材) to instantly complete the repair.

Expedition

For more information on this topic, see Expedition.

 This is where you send your fleets to complete expeditions, in exchange for resources and certain items. For some ships and items, the only way to obtain them is by doing expedition. None of the expeditions involve combat, so you won't have to worry about losing any of your ships. You will, however, need to resupply their fuel tanks once the expedition is finished. Also, it is one of the main sources of income.

Food supply ship Mamiya

Blinking button in the 'Organize' menu showing that Mamiya's food can be used.

Removes any fatigue on your fleet. If you don't use it, it could function as a fatigue indicator, as it informs you of when a girl in your fleet has fatigue, even without the orange fatigue indiciation. See here for the Wikipedia entry.

Modernization

For more information on this topic, see Modernization.

Process of using unused ships to increase stats (Firepower, AA, Torpedo, Armor) of a single ship. Also known as Merging.

Naval Exercise

PVP-like battle with no risk of repair and sinking, and only costs the player fuel, ammo and bauxite. Opponent teams update in real-time, but there is no simultaneous play.

• New opponent list refreshed at 03:00 and 15:00 JST

Phases of Battle

• Day Battle
  1. Reconnaissance (Stat boost, avoid being T-crossed)
  2. Initial airstrike (opening bombing, air superiority)
  3. Support fleet attack
  4. Opening/initial torpedo strike (see Type A Ko-hyoteki (甲標的甲型))
  5. Shelling/artillery phase (regular airstrike happens here)
  6. Torpedo salvo
• Night Battle

Remodel

Often confused with Modernization, will usually result in *ship name*-Kai (改). also known as Upgrading.

Fatigue

For more information on this topic, see Alright, I built my ship, kicked some ass and I noticed the orange faces. What gives?.

 Orange/sad faces are displayed next to the ship icon if they are too fatigued. Rest them for 15 minutes or so if it happens. Fatigue will reduce by 3 every 3 minutes.

Fatigued ships will have lower accuracy and evasion.

If your ships are still fatigued upon returning from expedition, your expedition will end up failing even with all other criteria fullfilled.

Sparkle

For more information on this topic, see My ship is sparkling/glittering!.

The polar opposite of Fatigue. If one or more of your ships sparkle, they will gain evasion boost during sortie. The evasion boost stats are not shown in your ship stats directly. Or, if you choose to send a sparkling ship on an expedition, it will have a chance for 150% resource gain and a higher likelihood of returning with a special item (note that this requires the entire fleet to be consisting of sparkling ships).

Medal

Medal(勲章), is a multi-purpose item that can be used to exchange for a small amount of resources or a remodel blueprint(改装設計図).

• 1 medal can be used to exchange for x354, x354, x354,  x354 and  x2.

• 4 medals are needed to exchange for 1 x remodel blueprint.

Medals can be obtained by clearing certain maps. You can find the amount of medals owned by accessing the Item page(アイテム) at the top menu bar of the main screen. Remodel blueprint is needed to remodel certain ships.

How to exchange medals for rewards?

Tracer-fire effect

This occurs when a ship fires any equipped machine guns to defend itself, reducing incoming damage from enemy bombers. Your flagship will always do this by default, even without any anti-air stat.

Equipment

Color-coded Aircraft

• Red Plane: Carrier-based Dive Bomber
• Blue Plane: Carrier-based Torpedo Bomber
• Green Plane: Carrier-based Fighter
• Yellow Plane: Carrier-based Recon Aircraft

• Light Green Plane: Seaplane Bomber and Reconnaissance  Seaplane

Color-coded Naval Guns

It is based on their roles, not ability.

• Red Gun: Main Gun; Primarily used against ships, with a secondary role as AA.
• Yellow Gun: Secondary Gun; increase in accuracy and AA stats.
• Green Gun: High-angle dual-purpose guns or AA machine guns
  • High-angle guns have the ability to effectively attack both aircraft and ships.
  • AA machine guns specifically attack aircraft and always trigger tracer-fire effect.

Midget Submarine

Also known by it's design code name Type A Kou-hyoteki (甲標的甲型) which literally means Target Type A, it's a submarine equipable on Torpedo Cruiser (e.g. Kitakami), Submarine, and Seaplane Tender. Frequently used because of their ability to attack before the shelling phase.

Turbine

Turbine are equippable on any ship. Turbine increases the evasion stat causing enemies have higher miss rate.

Trivia

！すでのな

One of Inazuma's lines written "backwards", in traditional Japanese format. Also appears as a wall scroll in the furniture page.

2-4-11

The fleet idol, Naka-chan dayo!~ (see number 48 designation).
2-4-11 refers to the fuel/ammo/steel combination received from her scrap.

File:Yukikaze.jpg

A picture of Yukikaze Beaver

Beaver

See Yukikaze and notice the similarities. pic related. Japanese fans call her 'Hamster' instead.

Big Seven

A group of warship built to carry the biggest naval gun (41cm) allowed by the Washington Naval Treaty. It comprise of Nagato, Mutsu, USS West Virginia, USS Maryland, USS Colorado, HMS Rodney, and HMS Nelson.

BURNING LOVE

Notable line from Kongou, a Kongou-class battleship built by Vickers Shipbuilding Company. Loves tea and fond of using English words due to her being built in England. Other examples:

• 提督ゥ～、You've Got Mail! Love letterは許さないからネ!
• Wow! Congratulations!
• Tea timeは大事にしないとネー

KTKM

Shorthand for 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!'.

Melon-chan

Nickname for Yuubari 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

Instead of being cool and serious, Nagato is usually depicted doing silly things or showing her love to random destroyers, Northern Hime and other cute stuff (she even kidnaps little girls in this mode).

Rensouhou-chan (連装砲ちゃん)

A Danbo-like robot which appears with Shimakaze. Amatsukaze, having a more formal character, calls hers Rensouhou-kun instead.

File:Chart-Breast.jpg

RJ/Airport

Light Carrier Ryūjō which has a second flight deck very flat chest. Don't complain about it, the chart agrees.

Tenryuu Kindergarten

A common theme where Tenryuu and her destroyers escort was regularly used in expeditions due to her low fuel and ammo cost. The official 4-koma also showed Tenryuu as being good at taking care of children (destroyers), hence the name.

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 life buoy.

Birthdays of Ship Girls

The birthdays of the ship girls are based from their date of launch sourced from their appropriate wikipedia pages.

Light Cruisers

• Tenryuu 11 March
• Tatsuta 29 May 
• Kuma 14 July
• Tama 10 February
• Kiso 10 February 
• Nagara 25 April
• Isuzu 29 October
• Natori February 16
• Yura 15 February
• Kinu  29 May
• Abukuma 16 March
• Sendai 30 October
• Jintsuu 8 December
• Naka 24 March
• Ooi 15 July
• Kitakami 3 July
• Yuubari 5 March
• Agano 22 October
• Noshiro 19 July
• Yahagi 25 October
• Sakawa 9 April 
• Ooyodo 2 April

Heavy Cruisers

• Furutaka 25 February
• Kako 10 April
• Aoba 25 September
• Kinugasa 24 October
• Myoukou 16 April
• Nachi 15 June
• Ashigara 22 April
• Haguro 24 March
• Takao 12 May
• Atago 16 June
• Maya 8 November
• Choukai 30 June

• Tone 21 November

• Chikuma 19 March
• Mogami 14 March
• Mikuma 31 May
• Suzuya 20 November
• Kumano 15 October
• Prinz Eugen 22 August

Battleships

• Nagato 9 November
• Mutsu 31 May 

• Kongou 18 May 

• Hiei 21 November

• Kirisihima 1 December

• Haruna 14 December

• Fusou 28 March 
• Yamashiro 3 November
• Ise 12 November
• Hyuuga 27 January

• Yamato 8 August

• Musashi 1 November

• Bismarck 14 February

Light Carriers

• Houshou 13 November
• Ryuujou 2 April 
• Hiyou 24 June
• Junyou 26 June
• Shohou 1 June 
• Zuihou 19 June
• Chitose 29 November
• Chiyoda 29 November
• Ryuuhou 16 November

Standard Carriers

• Akagi 22 April
• Kaga 17 November
• Souryuu 21 December
• Hiryuu 16 November
• Shoukaku 1 June
• Zuikaku 27 November
• Taihou 7 March
• Unryuu 25 September

Submarines

• I-8 20 July

• I-19 16 September

• I-168 26 June
• 1-58 30 June
• I-401 8 January*
• Maruyu *

Auxillary

• Akitsumaru 24 Sept
• Akashi 29 June
• Taigei 16 November

• Mamiya 26 October

List of vessels by Japanese voice actresses

Voice actress	Ship girls
Saki Fujita	Akagi, Fusou, Yamashiro, Kagerou, Shiranui, Kuroshio, Yukikaze, Tokitsukaze
Yuka Iguchi	Kaga, Tone, Chikuma, Tenryuu, Tatsuta, Nagara, Isuzu, Natori
Yuka Ootsubo	Ise, Hyuuga, Furutaka, Kako, Ooi, Kitakami, Hiyou, Junyou
Sumire Uesaka	Souryuu, Hiryuu, Fubuki, Shirayuki, Hatsuyuki, Miyuki, Murakumo, Isonami
Ayane Sakura	Nagato, Mutsu, Shimakaze, Kuma, Tama, Kiso, Sendai, Jintsuu, Naka
Nao Touyama	Kongou, Hiei, Haruna, Kirishima, Takao, Atago, Maya, Choukai, Ayanami, Shikinami
Aya Suzaki	Mogami, Houshou, Aoba, Akatsuki, Hibiki, Ikazuchi, Inazuma
Risa Taneda	Myoukou, Nachi, Ashigara, Haguro, Shouhou, Samidare, Suzukaze, Akashi
Motoko Kobayashi	Hatsuharu, Nenohi, Wakaba, Hatsushimo
Rina Hidaka	Ryuujou, Mutsuki, Kisaragi, Satsuki, Fumizuki, Nagatsuki, Kikuzuki, Mikazuki, Mochizuki, Yayoi, Uzuki
Iori Nomizu	Shoukaku, Zuikaku, Kinu, Abukuma, Special bosses (敵巨大母艦, 鬼, 姫, 戦鬼, 戦姫)
Megumi Nakajima	Mikuma, I-168, I-58, Kinugasa
Ayana Taketatsu	Yamato, Akigumo, Yuugumo, Makigumo, Naganami
Sarah Emi Bridcut	Maikaze, Hatsukaze,Yuubari, Suzuya, Kumano
Mamiko Noto	Taihou, Akitsu Maru, Maruyu
Aya Endou	Bismarck, Z1, Z3
Mariya Ise	I-401
Kozue Hayasaka (早坂梢)	Sazanami, Akebono, Ushio, Oboro
Yumi Tanibe (タニベ ユミ)	Yura, Shigure, Murasame, Yuudachi, Shiratsuyu
Wakana Miyagawa (宮川若菜)	Chitose, Chiyoda, Asashio, Ooshio, Michishio, Arashio, Arare, Kasumi
Mana Komatsu (小松真奈)	Zuihou, Hamakaze, Tanikaze, Urakaze
Misato (味里)	Musashi, I-19, I-8
Yuki Yamada (山田悠希)	Agano, Noshiro, Yahagi, Sakawa
Yui Ogura	Amatsukaze, Taigei
Hisako Kanemoto	Kiyoshimo, Hayashimo, Harusame, Northern Princess special boss
Ayako Kawasumi	Unryuu, Isokaze, Ooyodo, Midway Princess special boss
Ari Ozawa	Akizuki, Prinz Eugen, Nowaki, Destroyer Princess special boss
Yui Horie	Asagumo, Aircraft Carrier Water Demon special boss, Supply Ship Mamiya, Supply Ship Irako, Yamagumo
Uncredited

List of vessels by artist

Illustrator	Ship girls
Shibafu (しばふ)	Akagi, Kaga, Souryuu, Hiryuu, Ise, Hyuuga, Fubuki, Shirayuki, Hatsuyuki, Miyuki, Isonami, Ayanami, Shikinami, Ooi, Kitakami, Houshou, Mogami, Mikuma, I-401
Shizuma Yoshinori (しずまよしのり)	Nagato, Mutsu, Yukikaze, Shimakaze, Yamato, Musashi, Amatsukaze, Tokitsukaze, Akizuki
Konishi (コニシ)	Kongou, Hiei, Haruna, Kirishima, Asashio, Ooshio, Michishio, Arashio, Arare, Kasumi, Kagerou, Shiranui, Kuroshio, Shoukaku, Zuikaku, Yura, Kinu, Abukuma, Yuubari, Zuihou, Suzuya, Kumano, Maikaze, Hatsukaze, Agano, Noshiro, Yahagi, Sakawa, Nowaki
Kuu Ro Kuro (くーろくろ)	Ryuujou, Nagara, Isuzu, Natori, Chitose, Chiyoda, Hiyou, Junyou, Akitsu Maru, Maruyu, Unryuu
Kujou Ichiso (玖条イチソ)	Shiratsuyu, Shigure, Murasame, Yuudachi, Taigei, Harusame
Ayaki (彩樹)	Tenryuu, Tatsuta, Murakumo, Hatsuharu, Nenohi
Parsley (パセリ)	Maya, Choukai, Hamakaze, Tanikaze, Urakaze, Isokaze
Kusada Souta (草田草太)	Mutsuki, Kisaragi, Yayoi, Uzuki
Yadokari (やどかり)	Satsuki, Fumizuki, Nagatsuki, Kikuzuki, Mikazuki, Mochizuki, Akatsuki, Hibiki, Ikazuchi, Inazuma, Wakaba, Hatsushimo
UGUME	Kuma, Tama, Kiso, Furutaka, Kako
bob	Sendai, Jintsuu, Naka, Myoukou, Nachi, Ashigara, Haguro, Tone, Chikuma, Shouhou
hatsuko (ハツ子)	Aoba
Mikoto Akemi (みことあけみ)	Takao, Atago
Chiyou Amemiya (雨宮千遥)	Samidare, Suzukaze
drew	Oboro, Akebono, Sazanami, Ushio, Tutorial Musume
Shobon (ショボン)	I-168, I-58, I-19, I-8
Rikka (六花)	Fusou, Yamashiro
Fujikawa (藤川)	Kinugasa, Akigumo, Yuugumo, Makigumo, Naganami, Ooyodo, Supply Ship Mamiya, Error Musume, Akashi, Ooyodo, Hayashimo, Kiyoshimo, Supply Ship Irako, Asagumo
Humikane Shimada (島田フミカネ) (Twitter)	Taihou, Bismarck, Z1, Z3, Prinz Eugen
Oguchi (おぐち)	All standard enemy vessels (main design concept creator)
Akira (アキラ)	Special bosses 泊地棲鬼, 泊地棲姫, 飛行場姫
youki	Shinano (unconfirmed to even be in the game yet, from p.26 of Teitoku no Natsuyasumi and p.31 of Teitoku no Fuyuyasumi)
Uncredited	Yamagumo

Acronyms

Ever see an acronym in the wiki you didn't know the meaning of and urbandictionary doesn't have it? While it is preferable to not use acronyms to avoid confusion, some discussions will inevitably have them. This is an incomplete list of acronyms used in discussions by English-speaking KanColle players.

• AA - Anti-Air
• ACH - Aircraft Carrier Hime
• ASW - Anti-Submarine Warfare
• AS - Air Superiority
• AS+ - Air Supremacy
• BWS - Black Wock Shooter, nickname of Standard Carrier Wo-Class Kai Flagship
• BRS - Black Rick Shooter/Black Ruck Shooter
• CI - Cut-In
• CV - Character Voice, same as VA
• DA - Double Attack
• EO - Extra Operation (maps 1-5, 2-5, 3-5, 5-5, and some event maps)
• FBB - Fast Battleship
• FCF - Fleet Command Facility
• FP - FirePower, not to be confused with Fighter Power
• FP - Fighter Power, not to be confused with FirePower
• FS - FlagShip
• KC - Kantai Collection
• LSC - Large Ship Construction
• LoS/LOS - Line of Sight
• RNG - Random Number Generator
• SCAMP - Skilled Carrier-based Aircraft Maintenance Personnel
• TP -TorPedo
• VA - Voice Actress, same as CV