棒

Glyph origin
– a wooden club.

Etymology

 * “terrific; smart; handsome; excellent; skillful”


 * The semantics may have developed as “stick” > “hard” > “excellent”; compare dialectal Mandarin.

Definitions

 * 1) stick; club; truncheon
 * 2) to hit with a stick
 * 3)  baton; responsibility; succession
 * 4)  hefty; strong
 * 5)  terrific; smart; handsome; excellent; skillful

Descendants
Others:

Kanji

 * 1) bar, staff, stick, pole, walking stick, cane, stave, strove, rod, wand, (shepherd's) crook.
 * 2) straight line.

Etymology
From. The  pronunciation, so likely an earlier borrowing.

Noun

 * 1) a staff, measuring 6  (about 1.8 meters), used in martial arts such as
 * 2)  stick-like or long, cylindrical item: pointer, pole, rod, etc.
 * 3)  a straight line; bar
 * 4)  state of being in a "straight line"; continuous
 * 5) taut leg muscles due to fatigue
 * 6)  staff used by practitioners of Zen Buddhism
 * 1)  state of being in a "straight line"; continuous
 * 2) taut leg muscles due to fatigue
 * 3)  staff used by practitioners of Zen Buddhism