Jargon

Jargon refers to terms of art relating to Tekken.

For shorthand for game input and stance abbreviations, see Notation.
For the meaning of values in movelists, see Movelist.
For frame advantages, which look like “+5” and “-13c”, see § Frame advantage.

a

air combo: see Juggle
active frame: the frame where a move can hit the opponent, see also Frame#Moves
ak: short for Armor King
ali kick: a name for King's d+3+4
ancient power: a name for Devil Jin's b+1+3_b+2+4, named after a similar move Ogre has in previous games
attack: a move that has active frames

b

bad breath: a name for Nina's d/b,d,d/f,f,u/f,d/b+2+3, Yoshimitsu's d/b+1+2,1_2, and Armor King's Rage Drive R.f,n,d,d/f+1+2.
bazooka kick: a name for Lee's d,D/B+4
bdc: Backdash cancel
bigs: refers to characters with large hitboxes that aren't Kuma/Panda, typically Gigas, Jack-7, Marduk
bk: short for Blazing Kick, Lee's d,D/B+4
block stun: the time after blocking a move where the defender can't act
bo: best of, e.g. bo3 means “best of 3”, the number of matches in the set; the set usually ends early if there's a decisive winner before every match is played, e.g. if a player wins the first 2 matches in a bo3, the third is usually skipped. BOn = FT(n/2 + 0.5)
bow and arrow: a name for Julia's FC.d/f+4,3
bracket: the thing that says who plays against whom in each round of a tournament as per its format, usually double elimination
break: short for throw break, may also refer to chickening a reversal

c

cabinet: a name for an arcade machine
cali roll: short for California Roll, Xiaoyu's BT.f+3+4, and a name for Lucky Chloe's BT.f+3+4
can-cans: a name for Asuka, Devil Jin, and Jin's d+3+4, but also for similar moves
capo: short for capoeira, the fighting style used by Eddy; sometimes also refers to Lucky Chloe
cc: short for crouch cancel
cd: crouch dash
ch: counter hit
chainsaws: refers to Alisa's Destructive Stance and moves done from it
charge: see ki charge
cheese: moves or tactics that are much easier to use than they are to defend against
chicken: breaking a reversal by pressing either f+1+3 for a caught left limb or f+2+3 for a caught right limb, see also Chicken
connect: to have a move either hit or be blocked by an opponent, i.e. not to whiff a move
counter hit: to hit an opponent as they're trying to attack; note that throws can't be counter hit
crouch: see crouch
crush: see crush

d

deathmatch: a long set of matches between two players, often until one player can no longer continue playing, or until either player is promoted or demoted
demoman: short for Demolition Man, Paul's d+4,2:1+2
debug: short for Debugger, Jack-7's b,d/b,d,d/f+1
dempsey roll: a name for Steve's R.PAB.d/f+3+4,F and its follow up
dewgf: short for dashed electric wind god fist, f,f,n,d,d/f#2 with Devil Jin, Heihachi, or Kazuya
dewhf: short for dashed electric wind hook first, f,f,n,d,d/f#2 with Jin
dj: short for Devil Jin
drag: short for Dragunov
duck: a name for crouch

e

eat: to get hit by a move
elbow: a move that can't be parried by regular parries because the attack is an elbow
ewgf: short for electric wind god fist
ewhf: short for electric wind hook fist

f

fahk: short for Fahkumram
flash: short for Sword Flash, Yoshimitsu's 1+4
float: to hit an opponent out the air or off the ground and covert it into a juggle
frame: see Frame
ft: first to, e.g. ft2 means “first to 2”, the number of matches a player needs to win to win the set

g

getup kick: see § wake-up kick
ground game: see § okizeme
giant swing: King and Armor King's f,hcf+1, a throw which looks like a 1+2 break but is actually a 1 break

h

haha step: a technique Lei can do to move backwards quickly, combining b+3+4 with BT.d/b
harakiri: the name of moves Yoshimitsu can do where he stabs himself
hayashida step: a technique Nina can do
hei: short for Heihachi
hwo: short for Hwoarang

o

okizeme: pressure on a grounded opponent

w

wake-up kick: refers to attacks done from a grounded position, primarily those done by pressing 3 or 4, see also Wake-up

Uncategorized

Yoshi - a fictional dinosaur who appears in video games published by Nintendo. Yoshi debuted in Super Mario World on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System as Mario and Luigi's sidekick. Also short for Yoshimitsu

S1, S2, S3, S4, etc. - short for the number of the season.

T7, TK7 - short for Tekken 7

TTT2, Tag2 - short for Tekken Tag Tournament 2, previous game in the franchise

RA - short for Rage Art

RD - short for Rage Drive

Pretzel - d/b, hcb, d/f, the motion input for Geese' Raging Storm

P1, P2 - Player 1, Player 2, refers to the side a player is on, P1 is the left side, P2 is the right side. Online allows both players be play the same side relative to their screens, them being on P1 or P2 depends on if they can sidestep a certain way out of crouch. Example "So I will switch sides, so he is P2, and can't sidewalk the correct way after my d/f+1+2"

Reversal - in most fighting games, a move one does right as they leave a stunned state, suck as blockstun, hitstun, or wake up. A good reversal is a move that is servisable as a reversal, due to having some form of invincibility, being able to parry, or anything in that manner. Example in Tekken - doing Rage Art after getting hit, expecting opponent to continue pressing buttons - that is using RA as a reversal.

Someone's turn - on connect players are at a certain frame advantage, if first player's fastest attacking move at this advantage will hit first against opponent's fastest attacking move - it is said that it's first player's turn in that situation.since fastest attacking move on every character* is 10f, their +1 is enough to constitute that it's their turn.

Ballerina Spin - the visual effect on some moves, giving big + frames on hit, and giving a wall on connect while not being a knockdown normally.

<Char>cord - Discord server for the character. Leicord - Lei Wulong Discord, Zafcord - Zafina Discord, Alisacord - Alisa Discord. Not all servers have a commonly used shortening, but it doesn't mean there couldn't be one.

Flow chart, flowcharting - following a set of predetermined moves without much thinking of them. Isn't always a bad thing.