举 (jǔ): to raise

Meanings

1 to raise
2 to lift
3 to cite

Characters

举

jǔ

to raise; to lift; to hold up

Examples

请举个例子。

Qǐng jǔ gè lìzi.

Please give an example.

他举起了手。

Tā jǔqǐ le shǒu.

He raised his hand.

这个箱子太重，举不起来。

Zhège xiāngzi tài zhòng, jǔ bu qǐlái.

This box is too heavy to lift.

Tips

history

The traditional character 舉 shows two hands lifting something. The simplified form keeps the basic structure.

usage

举例 = to give an example. 举行 = to hold (an event). Two very common compounds.

Components

semantic

兴 xīng

rise; lift up

Top 兴 — itself a simplified glyph showing a stylised pair of hands lifting something. In 举 it carries the same 'raise up' image. Simplified from 舉; the older form had 與 over 手, four hands raising an object. Indexed under Kangxi #3 丶 (diǎn, dot) — a conventional choice, not visible.

semantic

扌 shǒu

hand (radical)

Bottom hand radical — the left-side variant of 手 used here as a stacking component. Reinforces the lifting picture: hands above (in 兴) plus a hand below cooperating to raise something. The Kangxi radical assigned to 举 is 丶 (the top dot), a purely indexing choice rather than a visible piece.

Filed under radical 丶 (diǎn, #3) by convention. 丶 is not a separate component in 举, so no strokes are highlighted.