Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Human Body & People

挙: raise, plan

Also: project, behavior, actions

JLPT N110 strokesGrade 4Your ink: 白 Not met

手 carries the meaning · 與 gives the sound

10 strokes

Three readings, and the words that use each

キョkyo · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 挙党きょとうentire party
  • 挙動不審きょどうふしんsuspicious conduct
  • 選挙せんきょelection
  • 暴挙ぼうきょreckless action
  • 快挙かいきょbrilliant achievement
  • 一挙にいっきょにat a stroke, with a single swoop
  • 挙手するきょしゅするraise one's hand
  • 検挙するけんきょするarrest [v.t.]

あげるageru · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 挙げるあげるraise, give, arrest [v.t.]
  • 挙げ句の果てあげくのはてon top of all that

あがるagaru · kun'yomi

  • 挙がるあがるrise, prosper, come up [v.i.]

Also read こぞる, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)與 (sound) + 手 hand (meaning)

Source: Wiktionary, 擧 (rev. 91535721), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Hand (手) + a structure. To use your "hand" to "raise" or lift something up, as in raising your hand to vote or "elect" a leader.”
From the 手 hand story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
手

Also built on hand (手)

All 6

Also read キョ

10 kanji share this on'yomi
In ChineseSimplified 举 · traditional 擧 · jǔ

Three different forms: Japanese 挙, simplified 举, traditional 擧.

Simplified
举 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
擧 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin jǔ most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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