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Kancolle dictionary
Acronyms
Ever see an acronym in the wiki you didn't know the meaning of and urban dictionary 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
- AACI - Anti-Air Cut-in
- AAFD - Anti-Air Fire Directors
- AAR - Anti-Air Resistance
- AARB - Anti-Air Rocket Barrage
- AD - Air Denial
- AFP - Air Fighter Power
- AGB - Icebreaker
- AGDP - Arctic Gear & Deck Personnel
- AGL - Lighthouse tender
- AGS - Survey ship
- AI - Air Incapability
- AK2 - 12.7cm Twin Gun Mount Model A Kai 2
- AK3 - 12.7cm Twin Gun Mount Model A Kai 3 (Wartime Modification) + Anti-Aircraft Fire Director
- AK4 - Prototype Long-barrel 12.7cm Twin Gun Mount Model A Kai 4
- AO - Fleet Oiler / Replenishment Oiler
- AP :
- AP - Air Parity
- AP - Air Power
- AP - Armor Piercing
- AP - Transport Ships
- APCI - AP shell Cut-In
- AR :
- AR - Repair Ship
- AR - Action Report
- AS :
- AS - Submarine Tender
- AS - Artillery Spotting
- AS - Air State
- AS - Air Superiority
- AS+ - Air Supremacy
- ASDIC - Anti-Submarine Division supersonICs
- ASS - "Airstrike Supported Submarines" nodes, alternative name to the Airstrike Supported Battle node
- ASW - Anti-Submarine Warfare
- AV - Seaplane Tender
- BB - Battleship
- BBCV - Aircraft Battleship, informal code designating the Ise-class Kai Ni
- BBV - Aviation Battleship
- BC - "Battle Cruisers" (only in the game for the Fleet menu's filter, mostly referring to the Kongou-class), the real code is "CC".
- BK2 - 12.7cm Twin Gun Mount Model B Kai 2
- BK4 - 12.7cm Twin Gun Mount Model B Kai 4 (Wartime Modification) + Anti-Aircraft Fire Director
- BP - Blueprint
- CA - Heavy Cruiser
- CAV - Aviation Cruiser
- CCCI - Credit-Card Cut-In, a "joke cut-in" about paying to do something
- CD - Concentrated Deployment, mostly referring to some equipment variations being packed together
- CDMG - Concentrated Deployment Machine Gun
- CEP - Communication Equipment & Personnel
- CF - Combined Fleet
- CI - "Cut-In", special powerful attacks triggered when using a right set of specific gears
- CK2 - 12.7cm Twin Gun Mount Model C Kai 2
- CK3 - 12.7cm Twin Gun Mount Model C Kai 3
- CK3H - 12.7cm Twin Gun Mount Model C Kai 3 H
- CL - Light Cruiser
- CLAA - Antiaircraft Cruiser
- CLT - Torpedo Cruiser
- CT:
- CT - Training Cruiser
- CT - Closing Torpedo Salvo
- CTF - Carrier Task Force
- CV:
- CV - Character Voice, same as VA or Seiyuu
- CV - Aircraft Carrier / Standard Aircraft Carrier
- CVB - Armored Aircraft Carrier / Armored Carrier
- CVCI - Aircraft Carrier Cut-In
- CVNCI - Aircraft Carrier Night Cut-In
- CVE - Escort Carrier, an ASW specialized light aircraft carrier
- CVL - Light Aircraft Carrier / Light Carrier
- CVN - Night Aircraft Carrier (not "nuclear CV" here)
- DA - Double Attack
- DC - Depth Charge
- DCP - Depth Charge Projector
- DCR - Depth Charge Rack
- DD - Destroyer
- DE - "Destroyer Escort" but this designates "Coastal Defense Ship" (Kaiboukan) in Kancolle
- DK2 - 12.7cm Twin Gun Mount Model D Kai 2
- DK3 - 12.7cm Twin Gun Mount Model D Kai 3
- DLC - Daihatsu Landing Craft, but sometimes designate all Landing Craft
- DM - Development Material
- DP - Dual-Purpose, for either Radars or High-Angle Guns, being both used for "air" and "surface" roles.
- EO - Extra Operation (maps 1-5, 1-6, 2-5, 3-5, 7-5, 4-5, 5-5, 6-5, and event final maps)
- FBB - Fast Battleship
- FCA - Fleet Communication Antenna
- FCF - Fleet Command Facility
- FCM - First Class Medal
- FF:
- FF - Friendly Fleet
- FF - Fast Fleet
- FP:
- FP - Firepower Stat
- FP - Fighter Power
- FS - Flagship
- GS - Great Success
- GTRL - Gun-Torpedo-Radar-Lookout, a "New Type" cut-in setup
- HA:
- HA - High-Altitude Interceptors
- HA - High-Angle Guns
- HMAS - Her/His Majesty's Australian Ship
- HMS - Her/His Majesty's Ship
- HNLMS - His/Her Netherlands Majesty's Ship
- HQ - Headquarter LV (Admiral personal LV)
- IC - Instant Construction Material
- IJA - Imperial Japanese Army
- IJN - Imperial Japanese Navy
- IM - Improvement Material
- IR - Instant Repair
- JA - Jet Assault
- KBK - Kaiboukan
- KC - Kantai Collection
- KMS - Kriegsmarine Ships
- LM - Late Model, mostly referring to revised equipment models being more capable
- LB - Land-Based
- LBAS - Land-Based Air Squadron
- LD - Last Dance, the last form of a map/boss, once the map HP bar is only 1 kill to be depleted/cleared
- LFB - Large Flying Boat
- LHA - Amphibious Assault Ship
- LoS/LOS - Line of Sight
- LSC - Large Ship Construction
- LST - Landing Ship, Tank
- MN - Marine nationale (French Navy)
- MO - Main Operation, all main maps (other than EO).
- NOAP - Night Operation Aviation Personnel
- NSCM - Night Skilled Crew Member
- OA - Opening Airstrike
- OASW - Opening ASW
- OT/O torp - Opening Torpedo Salvo
- RADAR - RAdio Detection And Ranging
- RAN - Royal Australian Navy
- RE - Reinforcement Expansion (extra ship slot)
- RL - Mostly 12cm 30-tube Rocket Launcher & 12cm 30-tube Rocket Launcher Kai Ni, but can designate most "Rocket munitions"
- RLK2 - 12cm 30-tube Rocket Launcher Kai Ni
- RM - Regia Marina (Italian Royal Navy)
- RN - Royal Navy
- RNN - Royal Netherlands Navy
- RP - Ranking points
- RSC - Resources
- RNG - Random Number Generation
- SCAMP - Skilled Carrier-based Aircraft Maintenance Personnel (not to be confused with the USS Scamp)
- SCM - Skilled Crew Members
- SDP - Skilled Deck Personnels
- SE - Support Expedition
- SF - Striking Force Fleet
- SFFCF/SFCF - Striking Force Fleet Command Facility
- SLO - Skilled Lookouts
- SSLO - "Super Skilled Lookouts"
- SONAR - SOund Navigation And Ranging
- SPB - Seaplane Bomber
- SPF - Seaplane Fighter
- SPR - Seaplane Recon
- SS - Submarine
- SSV - Aircraft Carrying Submarine
- STF - Surface Task Force
- TCI - Torpedo Cut-In
- TCF/TE - Transport Combined Fleet / Transport Escort
- TP:
- TP - Torpedo Stat
- TP - Transport Points
- TSLO - Torpedo SLO
- TSSL - Torpedo Squadron Skilled Lookouts
- TTK - "Teitoku", Japaneses for "Admiral"
- USN - United States Navy
- USS - United States Ship
- VA - Voice Actress, same as CV or Seiyuu
- WG/WG42 - WG42 (Wurfgerät 42)
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.
- 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)