举行
jǔxíng · HSK 2
hold (meeting/etc.)
📅 举 = lift/raise + 行 = carry out; raising up an event to carry it out
举行 literally combines 举 (raise, hold up) with 行 (do, carry out), giving the sense of formally conducting or holding an event like a meeting or ceremony.
举 — hands 𠆢 + give 与 (simplified from 擧)
Originally written 擧, showing hands (手) lifting something together with the phonetic 與 'together'. The simplified form 举 keeps the idea of many hands raising up. Core meaning 'to lift, raise' extended to 'to launch, propose, hold (an event)'.
行 — crossroads pictograph (left 彳 + right 亍)
行 originally pictured a four-way crossroads in oracle bone script, with two paths meeting. From 'road' it extended to 'walk, go, travel,' and then to 'a row, line' or 'business firm' (read háng). The two halves 彳 and 亍 are the split sides of that ancient crossroads.