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擧

擧

See also: 舉, 挙, and 举

Translingual

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (舁) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
攑 *kʰlan
藇 *sla, *ljaʔ, *la, *laʔ, *las
嶼 *ljaʔ
鱮 *ljaʔ
舉 *klaʔ
櫸 *klaʔ
舁 *la
與 *la, *laʔ, *las
輿 *la, *las
旟 *la
璵 *la
歟 *la, *laʔ, *las
譽 *la, *las
嬩 *la
擧 *la
鸒 *la, *las
礜 *las
穥 *las

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *la) : phonetic 與 ‎(OC *la, *laʔ, *las) + semantic 手 ‎(“hand”).

Han character

擧 (radical 64 手+14, 18 strokes, cangjie input 竹金手 (HCQ) or X竹金手 (XHCQ), composition ⿱與手)

  1. raise, lift up
  2. recommend

Variant:

  • 舉 (U+8209); The bottom part displays as 𠀆.
  • 𦦙 (U+26999); The bottom part displays as 丰.

References

  • KangXi: page 460, character 10
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 12863
  • Dae Jaweon: page 808, character 30
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 3, page 1966, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+64E7

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 擧 – see 舉.
(This character, 擧, is a variant form of 舉.)

Japanese

Kanji

擧

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 挙)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

擧 • ‎(geo) (hangeul 거, revised geo, McCune-Reischauer kŏ, Yale ke)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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References

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