raise

Variant of .

Evolution

擧 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
擧 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
擧 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

𢪓 () 

raise, lift up; recommend

() 

variant of |[jǔ]

Most common words with 擧
Freq.
Word
Meaning

举行

to hold (a meeting, ceremony etc)

to lift

举办

to conduct

选举

to elect

举动

act

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 52.0903% of movies

837th most common character in movies

586th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

17

Simplified

Unicode

U+64E7

Shuowen

“擧,對舉也。从手,與聲。”


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