Where does “一級棒” come from?

一級棒 (Chinese) comes from Japanese 一番, from Japanese 一, from Japanese 始め, from Japanese 始める — begin; start; initiate; originate.

一級棒 (Chinese): excellent

Definitions

  1. excellent

Ancestry of “一級棒”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese一番first, number one; game, round; most, -est, -most
2Japanese一one, 1; "term relating to the number one"; unity
3Japanese始めbeginning, the start of an activity or time...
4Japanese始めるbegin; start; initiate; originate
Every word from Japanese 始める →Every word from Japanese 始め →Every word from Japanese 一 →