2ch

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

Terminology

These terms are used both on 2channel and on its Japanese and American spinoffs.

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• AA - Abbreviation of "ASCII art", usually referring to common Shift-JIS art characters.
• Aborn (Jp. あぼーん (ab?n) ) - "To delete a post". Posts are deleted in two ways: Normal Aborn and invisible Aborn (Japanese 透明あぼーん). Any posts deleted as normal Abon are replaced by a special post, whose subject, date, and body are all "あぼーん".
• Age (pronounced "ah-geh") - From Japanese ageru (??? "to raise"), refers to replying to an especially noteworthy or neglected post in order to move it to the top of the topic list (equivalent to the English bump)
• Capcode - A special, custom tripcode used by website administrators and especially famous people chosen by the webmasters; in Japanese, simply "cap".
• Fixed Handle - An online nickname (as opposed to anonymity); in Japanese, Kotehan, from Kotei Handle Name
• Mona - An ASCII art character
• Giko Cat (Giko neko) - Another ASCII art character
• Off Kai - An offline meeting by anonymous posters
• Sage (pronounced "sah-geh") - from Japanese sageru (??? "to lower"), refers to replying to a post using the word "sage" in the email field in order to increase the number of replies without age-ing the post. This can be used as a courtesy, allowing one to quietly add comments that may not be interesting enough to warrant pushing the thread to the top. It can also be used as a way to show displeasure with the post being replied to.
• Tripcode - A cryptographic hash created from a password, used to allow a user to "sign" their posts while remaining anonymous; in Japanese, simply "trip"
• ">>" - Often followed with the numeral of the intended post to mean reply or follow up. 2ch automatically makes a link.
• >>1-san (>>1??) - An ASCII art character, representing the poster who started the thread it appears in.