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There are 10 total results for your best number one search.

Characters Pronunciation
Romanization
Simple Dictionary Definition

一番

see styles
yī fān
    yi1 fan1
i fan
 ichiban
    いちばん

More info & calligraphy:

Best / Number One
(kana only) pair; couple; brace; (noun - becomes adjective with の) (1) number one; first; first place; (adverb) (2) best; most; (3) game; round; bout; (adverb) (4) as a test; as an experiment; by way of experiment; by way of trial; tentatively; (5) song (e.g. in noh); piece; (place-name) Ichiban
first

海選


海选

see styles
hǎi xuǎn
    hai3 xuan3
hai hsüan
(in elections for village committees in the PRC since the 1990s) unrestricted nomination, a type of election where 1. everyone in the community is eligible to nominate somebody 2. voting is done by writing the name of one's nominee on the ballot, and 3. one's nominee can be anyone in the community (Nominees who receive the highest number of votes may be thereby elected or, more often, presented as the candidates in a further round of voting.); (in other contexts) selection of the best contender in a process open to all comers; (in the entertainment industry) open audition

第一

see styles
dì yī
    di4 yi1
ti i
 teiichi / techi
    ていいち
first; number one; primary
(adv,n) first; foremost; number one; (given name) Teiichi
The first, chief, prime, supreme.

頂尖


顶尖

see styles
dǐng jiān
    ding3 jian1
ting chien
peak; apex; world best; number one; finest (competitors); top (figures in a certain field)

全米一

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 zenbeiichi / zenbechi
    ぜんべいいち
(noun - becomes adjective with の) number one in all of America; best in all of America

日本一

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 nihonichi(p); nipponichi
    にほんいち(P); にっぽんいち
(noun - becomes adjective with の) Japan's best; number one in Japan

天下第一

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tiān xià dì yī
    tian1 xia4 di4 yi1
t`ien hsia ti i
    tien hsia ti i
 tenkadaiichi / tenkadaichi
    てんかだいいち
first under heaven; number one in the country
(noun - becomes adjective with の) the best in the land; the best of its kind in the country; par excellence in the whole country

Variations:
一番(P)
1番

see styles
 ichiban
    いちばん
(noun - becomes adjective with の) (1) number one; first; first place; (adverb) (2) best; most; (3) game; round; bout; (adverb) (4) (See 試しに) as a test; as an experiment; by way of experiment; by way of trial; tentatively; (5) song (e.g. in noh); piece

Variations:
第一(P)
第1

see styles
 daiichi / daichi
    だいいち
(adj-no,n) (1) first; foremost; number one; (adj-no,n) (2) most important; (adj-no,n) (3) best; greatest; most; (adverb) (4) above all; besides; in any case; to begin with

Variations:
ベストワン
ベスト・ワン

see styles
 besutowan; besuto wan
    ベストワン; ベスト・ワン
(the) best (eng: best one); number one

Entries with 2nd row of characters: The 2nd row is Simplified Chinese.

This page contains 10 results for "best number one" in Chinese and/or Japanese.



Information about this dictionary:

Apparently, we were the first ones who were crazy enough to think that western people might want a combined Chinese, Japanese, and Buddhist dictionary.

A lot of westerners can't tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese - and there is a reason for that. Chinese characters and even whole words were borrowed by Japan from the Chinese language in the 5th century. Much of the time, if a word or character is used in both languages, it will have the same or a similar meaning. However, this is not always true. Language evolves, and meanings independently change in each language.

Example: The Chinese character 湯 for soup (hot water) has come to mean bath (hot water) in Japanese. They have the same root meaning of "hot water", but a 湯屋 sign on a bathhouse in Japan would lead a Chinese person to think it was a "soup house" or a place to get a bowl of soup. See this: Japanese Bath House

This dictionary uses the EDICT and CC-CEDICT dictionary files.
EDICT data is the property of the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group, and is used in conformance with the Group's license.

Chinese Buddhist terms come from Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill and Lewis Hodous. This is commonly referred to as "Soothill's'". It was first published in 1937 (and is now off copyright so we can use it here). Some of these definitions may be misleading, incomplete, or dated, but 95% of it is good information. Every professor who teaches Buddhism or Eastern Religion has a copy of this on their bookshelf. We incorporated these 16,850 entries into our dictionary database ourselves (it was lot of work).



Combined, these cover 1,007,753 Japanese, Chinese, and Buddhist characters, words, idioms, names, placenames, and short phrases.

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