Character for raising

It means to raise or lift, then to recommend or conduct.

擧 belongs to a character family whose core sense is raising or lifting. A Han era Chinese dictionary, Shuowen Jiezi, glosses it as “raise together.” Its related senses include recommending or selecting someone, presenting an example, starting an undertaking, conducting an event, and referring to the whole.

In Korean Hanja—Chinese characters used in Korean writing—擧 appears in words related to raising a hand, conducting an event, conduct, recommendation, election, and the old civil-service examination. Japanese older spelling uses 擧 where the modern spelling uses 挙.

Why does 擧 look different from 舉, 挙, and 举?

They are regional and historical forms of one character family.

Character-variant references treat 擧 as a variant of 舉 and trace the standard forms to a shared small-seal form, an older standardized Chinese writing style. Traditional Chinese uses 舉, simplified Chinese uses 举, and Japanese uses 挙; Korean Hanja and Japanese kyūjitai (older Japanese character forms) retain 擧.

Use 擧 when preserving Korean Hanja, older Japanese spelling, or a historical source. For newly written text, follow the usual orthography of its language; switching a related form can change an exact transcription even when the character family is shared.

How do I type 擧?

Use a Unicode-aware input method for this exact character.

These forms are separate encoded characters, so a meaning-based lookup can return 舉, 挙, or 举. In a Unicode input method, enter U+64E7; when transcribing, check the underlying text because a font’s drawing alone may not identify the form.

When composing Korean or Japanese text, use 擧 only when that orthographic tradition or the source calls for the older form.