cử - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kɨ˧˩]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kɨ˧˨]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [kɨ˨˩˦]

Sino-Vietnamese word from 舉 (“to lift, to conduct, to praise, to appoint”).

cử

1. Sino-Vietnamese reading of 舉

cử

1. to appoint, delegate
2. (only in compounds) to lift

Sino-Vietnamese word from 櫸 (“zelkova”).

(classifier cây) cử

1. zelkova