U+6319 "挙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

U+6319 "挙" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese and Japanese kanji that primarily means "to raise," "to hold up," "to cite as an example," or "to initiate an action." This character is a simplified or variant form of the more common traditional character 舉, and it appears frequently in both modern and classical East Asian texts. In Japanese, it is often used in words like 挙げる (ageru, to raise or to list) and 選挙 (senkyo, election), while in Chinese it is associated with formal or literary contexts, such as in the term 挙例 (jǔlì, to give an example). Its visual composition includes elements suggesting two hands lifting something, reflecting its original meaning of lifting or recommending.