最好
zuìhǎo · HSK 1
it would be best
👍 最 = most + 好 = good → most good = had better
最 means 'most' (superlative marker) and 好 means 'good'. Together 最好 literally reads 'most good', which extends to 'the best thing to do' — hence 'had better' as a soft recommendation.
最 — top 冃 (hat/cover) + bottom 取 (take)
Originally a compound suggesting taking something even at risk, with 冃 (a covering, often confused with 日 sun) over 取 (to seize). Over time it shifted from 'to risk taking' to the superlative meaning 'most' or 'extremely', its modern use in Chinese.
好 — woman 女 + child 子
好 is an associative compound showing a woman 女 beside a child 子, depicting a mother with her baby. From this image of maternal affection it came to mean 'good, fine, pleasing.' The reading hǎo means 'good'; read hào it means 'to like.'