完かん全ぜん試じ合あい

also: かんぜんしあい

Meanings

1

Baseball term: a game in which no opposing player reaches base.

彼かれはプロ野や球きゅうで完かん全ぜん試じ合あいを達たっ成せいした。
He pitched a perfect game in professional baseball.

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Usage patterns

〈人ひと〉が完かん全ぜん試じ合あいを達たっ成せいするfor a pitcher to achieve a perfect game
その投とう手しゅはプロ入いり初しょ年ねん度どで完かん全ぜん試じ合あいを達たっ成せいした。
That pitcher achieved a perfect game in his first year as a pro.
完かん全ぜん試じ合あいを記き録ろくするto record/pitch a perfect game
球きゅう団だん史し上じょう初はじめて完かん全ぜん試じ合あいを記き録ろくした。
It was the first perfect game recorded in the team's history.

Kanji

完perfect, completion, end
全whole, entire, all
試test, try, attempt
合fit, suit, join

Related words

ノーヒットノーランゲーム
完全試合 (perfect game) requires that no batter reaches base at all, while ノーヒットノーランゲーム allows walks or errors as long as no hits or runs occur.

Don't confuse with

ノーヒットノーラン
完全試合 means no opposing batter reaches base at all, while ノーヒットノーラン (no-hitter) still allows walks or errors that put a runner on base.
完かん投とう
完投 only requires finishing the game as the sole pitcher, while 完全試合 is the much rarer feat of a perfect game with no hits, walks, or errors allowed.

Counted with

回かいN4
counter for occurrences; times · time; instance; occasion · inning (baseball); round; game · episode; chapter; installment · Hui (people) · Islam

Built from

完かん全ぜん+試し合あい

Written forms

完全試合
- かんぜんじあい
  Standard kanji spelling; the reading かんぜんじあい is the most common.
- かんぜんしあい
  Alternate reading; less common but listed.
かんぜんしあい

Etymology

Compound of 完全 (perfect) and 試合 (game/match), directly calquing the English baseball term 'perfect game'.