# 挙 — Raise

Frequency rank 652 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Mid-frequency: not on every page, but regular in books and magazines.

More common than 協 (Cooperation), less common than 況 (Condition).

- On’yomi: きょ
- Kun’yomi: あ
- Radical: 手 Hand (Kangxi 64)
- Frequency path: Level V of XX
- School grade: 4
- Strokes: 10

Grass on top, ground in the middle, fins and a hand at the bottom — a hand with fins pushes up from the ground through the grass, raised high in the air.

In words:

- 挙げる あげる — to raise,to fly
- 選挙 せんきょ — election
- 一挙に いっきょに — at a stroke;with a single swoop

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