2ch

:This article is about the Japanese forum. See 2CH for the Sydney radio station.

Common abbreviations and phrases

• Burakura (????) - "Browser crusher", one who posts links to sites designed to crash users' web browsers.
• Chu or Chubou (? or ??) - An intentional misuse of kanji for "??" (a middle school kid), it refers to those posters who post without reading any rules, also to those who engage in flaming and spamming.
• Natsuchu (??) - Someone who appears in the summer break and makes ridiculous posts, acting like Chu
• Fuun (??´_?`???? ) - a kaomoji for indifference; the word ????? is the Japanese equivalent of the English "hunh." The fuun face is the basis of the Sasuga Brothers AA.
• Fuyuchu (??) - Same as natsuchu, but for posters appearing in winter.
• Haahaa ((*´?`)????) - a kaomoji indicating that one is breathing heavily. Generally due to masturbating, but it may also indicate nervousness (for an example of the latter usage, see Densha Otoko).
• Kami (? or ??) - A person who is considered a "forum god" for especially useful posts or an interesting ID hash; see Kami
• Kita!! (????????(???)?????? !!!!!) - Literally, "I/It came!", it is generally used as a big exclamation mark. The face in the center is named jisakujien.
• Kopipe (???) - Copy/paste. A text passage or piece of AA that is frequently recycled and reposted.
• Nullpo (???) - A parody of the Java output "NullPointerException". Usually followed up with "GA(??)!", the sound of a hammer hitting the "nullpo" poster, because of a meme started in this thread.
• Uhho! (???) - Originally from a gay manga, used somewhat like Haahaa and Kita!! but when the post is macho
• ? - A single letter substituting for "warai" or "laughing", added to mean that the poster is joking or thinks he made a funny remark, basically the equivalent to "LOL"; putting "???????????" at the end of something is the same thing as saying "LOLOLOLOLOLOL". Also warota (???) from the Kansai-ben past tense of warau. Warosu (???) is one of the recent derivatives of warota, from the threads (???????????, Guidelines for warosu), where endless word-chanting of warosues is going on.