先发投手

Traditional form:

先發投手

Pinyin (reading):

xiānfātóushǒu

Definitions:

• (baseball) starting pitcher

Characters:

• 先 - first, former, previous
• 发 - to issue, to dispatch, to send out; hair
• 投 - to pitch, to throw; to bid, to invest
• 手 - hand

Traditional characters:

• 先 - first, former, previous
• 發 - to issue, to dispatch, to send out; hair
• 投 - to pitch, to throw; to bid, to invest
• 手 - hand