jǔ
raise
Phonosemantic compound. 手 represents the meaning and 與 represents the sound.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Warring States (~250 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 舉
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
to hold (a meeting, ceremony etc) | ||
to lift | ||
to conduct | ||
to elect | ||
act |
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*C.q(r)aʔ | kjoX | jǔ | lift, raise |
*[k](r)aʔ | kjoX | jǔ | all |
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 | 16 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8209 |
Shuowen | “擧,對舉也。从手,與聲。” |
Sources
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