舉

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See also: 举 and 擧
舉 U+8209, 舉
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8209
← 興
[U+8208] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 舊 →
[U+820A]

Translingual[edit]

Traditional 擧
Simplified 举
Japanese 挙
Korean 擧

Alternative forms[edit]

  • 擧 (U+64E7); The bottom part displays as 手. (Original form of 舉)
  • 𦦙 (U+26999); The bottom part displays as 丰.

Han character[edit]

舉 (radical 134, 臼+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 竹金手 (HCQ), four-corner 77502, composition ⿱與𰀁)

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

  • KangXi: not present, would follow page 1005, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 30238
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1461, character 10
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3041, character 8
  • Unihan data for U+8209

Usage notes[edit]

This character is a modified form of 擧 derived from historical forms of the character (The component 手 is written 手-seal.svg in small seal script). In traditional Chinese script (Hong Kong and Taiwan), this character 舉 is preferred over 擧. Note that this character is not found in the Kangxi dictionary.

Chinese[edit]

trad. 舉/擧
simp. 举
alternative forms
 
擧
𦦙
挙
㪯
𡕖
擧
𦦙
挙
㪯
𡕖
𠃥
𠔖
𠢈
𡴃
𢪓

Glyph origin[edit]

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

Etymology[edit]

May be cognate with Tibetan འཁྱོག་པ ('khyog pa, “to lift; to bring; to carry”), Tibetan སྐྱ་བ (skya ba, “to carry; to convey”) (Schuessler, 2007). Alternatively, it may be related to 舁 (OC *la, “to lift”) as a *k- prefixed verb (Baxter and Sagart, 1998).

Pronunciation[edit]

Rime
Character 舉
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 魚 (22)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 居許切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/kɨʌX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/kiɔX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/kiɔX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/kɨə̆X/
Li
Rong 		/kiɔX/
Wang
Li 		/kĭoX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/ki̯woX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		jǔ
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		geoi2
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 舉 舉
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		jǔ jǔ
Middle
Chinese 		‹ kjoX › ‹ kjoX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*C.q(r)aʔ/ /*[k](r)aʔ/
English lift, raise all

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 舉
Reading # 1/1
No. 15888
Phonetic
component 		舁
Rime
group 		魚
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime 		舉
Old
Chinese 		/*klaʔ/
Notes 舁轉註字，說文從手與聲，
漢碑隸變作此

Definitions[edit]

舉

  1. to raise; to lift up
    舉頭望明月，低頭思故鄉。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
    举头望明月，低头思故乡。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]
    From: Tang Dynasty, 李白 (Li Bai), 靜夜思 ("Quiet Night Thought")
    Jǔtóu wàng míngyuè, dītóu sī gùxiāng. [Pinyin]
    I raise my head to gaze at the bright moon and bow my head to think of my hometown.
  2. † to recommend
  3. action; deed
  4. whole; entire
    舉國 / 举国  ―  jǔguó  ―  the entire country

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 舉

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

舉

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. Alternative form of 擧 (Shinjitai form 挙)

Readings[edit]

  • On (unclassified): きょ (kyo)
  • Kun: あげる (ageru), こぞる (kozoru)

Usage notes[edit]

For the kyūjitai form of 挙, see 擧 instead.

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

舉: Hán Nôm readings: cử, cỡ, cữ

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