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Kancolle Dictionary
Are listed a comprehensive list of most abreviations and acronyms used by the Kancolle community.
Abreviations & Acronyms
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)