Japanese

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Kanji in this term
せん
Grade: 4
きゅう
Grade: 3
がん
Grade: 5
on'yomi

Etymology

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From 選球(せんきゅう) (senkyū) + (がん) (gan).

Pronunciation

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  • (Tokyo) んきゅうがん [sèńkyúꜜùgàǹ] (Nakadaka – [3])[1]
  • IPA(key): [sẽ̞ŋʲkʲɨᵝːɡã̠ɴ]

Noun

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(せん)(きゅう)(がん) (senkyūganせんきうがん (senkiugan)?

  1. (baseball) an eye for discerning whether a pitch is a strike or not

References

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  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

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Hanja in this term

Noun

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選球眼 (seon'guan) (hangeul 선구안)

  1. Hanja form? of 선구안 ((baseball) an eye for discerning whether a pitch is a strike or not).