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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 DirectorsType 91 Anti-Aircraft Fire Director
Type 94 Anti-Aircraft Fire Director		 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 PersonnelArctic 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 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 Gun25mm Triple Autocannon Mount (Concentrated Deployment) 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
CT Closing Torpedo Salvo
CTF Carrier Task Force
CV CV Character Voice Same as VA or Seiyuu
CV Aircraft Carrier Standard Aircraft Carrier only in the game
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" 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 CraftDaihatsu Landing Craft Often 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 coming after the "MO" in the world
FBB Fast Battleship
FCA Fleet Communication Antenna
FCF Fleet Command FacilityFleet Command Facility Sometimes designate all Command FacilitiesFleet Command Facility
Striking Force Fleet Command Facility
Elite Torpedo Squadron Command Facility
FCM First Class Medal
FF FF Friendly Fleet
FF Fast Fleet
FP FP Firepower
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 Admiral's personal level
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 Nazi Germany Navy
LM Late Model Mostly referring to revised equipment variations, 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 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 NOAP Night Operation Aviation PersonnelNight Operation Aviation Personnel
NOAP+ Night Operation Aviation Personnel + Skilled DeckhandsNight Operation Aviation Personnel + Skilled Deckhands
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 Rocket Launcher Mostly 12cm 30-tube Rocket Launcher12cm 30-tube Rocket Launcher & 12cm 30-tube Rocket Launcher Kai Ni12cm 30-tube Rocket Launcher Kai Ni, but can designate most "Rocket munitions"
RLK2 12cm 30-tube Rocket Launcher Kai Ni12cm 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 PersonnelSkilled Carrier-based Aircraft Maintenance Personnel Not to be confused with the USS Scamp
SCM Skilled Crew Members
SDP SDP Skilled Deck PersonnelsSkilled Deck Personnel
Skilled Deck Personnel + Aviation Maintenance Hands
SDP+ Skilled Deck Personnel + Aviation Maintenance HandsSkilled Deck Personnel + Aviation Maintenance Hands
SE Support Expedition
SF Striking Force Fleet
SFFCF/SFCF Striking Force Fleet Command FacilityStriking Force Fleet Command Facility
SLO Skilled LookoutsSkilled Lookouts
Torpedo Squadron Skilled Lookouts
SONAR SOund Navigation And Ranging
SPB Seaplane Bomber
SPF Seaplane Fighter
SPR Seaplane Recon
SS Submarine
SSLO Super Skilled LookoutsTorpedo Squadron Skilled Lookouts
SSV Aircraft Carrying Submarine
STF Surface Task Force
TCI Torpedo Cut-In
TCF/TE Transport Combined Fleet / Transport Escort
TP TP Torpedo Either the Stat or the equipment
TP Transport Points
TSLO Torpedo SLOTorpedo Squadron Skilled Lookouts
TSSL Torpedo Squadron Skilled LookoutsTorpedo 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 (Wurfgerät 42)WG42 (Wurfgerät 42)
WG42 WG42 (Wurfgerät 42)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.
► Disambiguations

Girls nicknames

"Official" nicknames

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

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.

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