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Some card names in the TCG and OCG use shortened or abbreviated names or terms, either because the names would be too long unabbreviated, or for stylistic reasons. This page serves to list what each of these abbreviations stand for.
Terminology[]
The use of abbreviation is primarily done in the Japanese version of the OCG, due to the unwieldiness of transcriptions of foreign words. Clunky transcriptions have been abbreviated especially in card text with the use of annotative furigana.
TCG | English | Brazilian Portuguese | Japanese | Korean |
---|---|---|---|---|
ATK (Attack Points) | 공 (공격력) | |||
DEF (Defense Points) | 수 (수비력) | |||
LP (Life Points) | PV (Pontos de Vida) | LP (Life Points) | ||
GY (Graveyard) | ||||
Monster Cards[]
English | Japanese | Expansion | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
"A/D Changer" | "Attack/Defense Changer" | ||
"B. Dragon Jungle King" | "Black Dragon Jungle King" | ||
"B. Skull Dragon" | "Black Skull Dragon" | ||
"Constellar Ptolemy M7" | セイクリッド・トレミス |
"Constellar Ptolemy Messier 7" | |
"Contrast HERO Chaos" | |||
"Dark Napoleon" | |||
"D. Human" | ドラゴヒューマン | "Drago Human"/"Dragon Human" | often mistaken for "Demon Human" |
"E☆HERO Pit Boss" | "Entertainment HERO Pit Boss" | ||
"Five God Dragon" | the Japanese name of "Five-Headed Dragon" | ||
"G.B. Hunter" | "Gladiator Beast Hunter" | ||
ハーピィ・レディ・ |
"Harpie Lady Cyber Bondage" | the Japanese name of "Cyber Harpie Lady"; SB abbreviates the Japanese Saibā Bondēji | |
"KA-2 Des Scissors" | KA-2 デス・シザース | Not an abbreviation, but a pun in that 2 is ni in Japanese, thus KA-2 may be read kani meaning "crab" | |
"Giltia the D. Knight" | "Giltia the Dark Knight" | ||
"Lady of D." | "Lady of Dragons" | ||
"Little D" | "Little Dinosaur" | ||
"Lord of D." | "Lord of Dragons" | ||
"M-Warrior #1" | "Magnet-Warrior #1" | ||
"M-Warrior #2" | "Magnet-Warrior #2" | ||
"Meteor B. Dragon" | "Meteor Black Dragon" | ||
"Muse-A" | "Muse-Angel" | ||
"Obnoxious Celtic Guard" | "Obnoxious Celtic Guardian" | name shortened to exclude it from the "Guardian" archetype | |
"Red-Eyes B. Chick" | "Red-Eyes Black Chick" | ||
"Red-Eyes B. Dragon" | "Red-Eyes Black Dragon" | ||
"T.A.D.P.O.L.E." | Not an abbreviation, but refers to a pun in Japanese where otamajakushi means "tadpole", but can also be split into the five words o / tama / ja / ku / shi, individually meaning "evil / soul / vice / pain / stop" (this is reflected in how this card's Japanese name has been written out) |
Spell Cards[]
English | Japanese | Expansion | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
"The A. Forces" | "The Allied Forces" | ||
"Double Tool C&D" | ダブルツール |
"Cut and Drill"/"Chainsaw and Drill" | |
"EN Shuffle" | "Elemental Neo Shuffle" | ||
"Hyper-Rank-Up-Magic Ultimate Force" | |||
"NEX" | "Neo-Spacian Extent" | ||
"Double-Rank-Up-Magic Utopia Force" | W is used to abbreviate ダブル daburu ("double") as the letter W is similarly pronounced daburyū in Japanese |
Trap Cards[]
English | Japanese | Expansion | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
"D. Tribe" | "Dragon Tribe" | ||
"D2 Shield" | "Defense 2 Shield" | ||
"G Force" | "Gem Force" |
Card groups[]
English | Japanese | Expansion | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
"A" | "Alien" | in "Alien" support | |
A-Counter | Alien Counter | ||
Ally of Justice | |||
Advanced | as in "Advanced Crystal Beast" | ||
A | Attack | in the Japanese version of the anime | |
B.E.S. | Bacterium Empire Ship | ||
Blackwing | Black Feather | ||
"C" | "Cockroach" | the Japanese name abbreviates ゴキブリ gokiburi, Japanese for "cockroach" | |
C | "Carrier" | in the Japanese version of the anime | |
Chain | the Japanese name of the "Iron Chain" archetype | ||
Chaos | |||
CXyz | Chaos Xyz | ||
Dark Tuner | in the Japanese anime | ||
Deformer | the Japanese name of the "Morphtronic" archetype | ||
D | Destiny | in "Destiny HERO" support | |
D.D. | Different Dimension | ||
D/D | Different Dimension | ||
D/D/D | Different Dimension Demon | ||
Destiny HERO | |||
Elemental HERO | |||
Evil HERO | |||
EX | Extra | in "Arcana Force" monsters | |
G | "Guard" | in the Japanese version of the anime | |
Heroic Challenger | Heroic Challenger | ||
Heroic Champion | Heroic Champion | ||
LV | Level | ||
Masked HERO | |||
Number C | Chaos Number | ||
Number iC | Chaos imaginary Number | seen only in the anime | |
Number | Number | ||
Number 10X | Over-Hundred Number | ||
Number C10X | Chaos Over-Hundred Number | ||
Performage | Entermage | ||
Performapal | Entermate | ||
R-Genex | Real-Genex | ||
Rank-Down-Magic | |||
Rank-Up-Magic | |||
T.G. | Tech Genus | ||
T | "Top" | in the Japanese version of the anime | |
Vision HERO | |||
ZW - | ZEXAL Weapon | ||
ZS - | ZEXAL Servers |