Illustration: At a neighborhood sports ground before a community event, a volunteer pulls the rope of a flagpole, raising a plain club flag above the gathered participants. One hand draws the rope down while the other prepares the next pull, and the flag opens in the breeze near the top.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

掲かかげる

kakageru

to put up, to fly

Example sentences

彼かれは旗はたをかかげた。
He put up a flag.
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その船ふねはアメリカ国旗こっきを掲かかげていた。
The ship was flying the American flag.
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家々いえいえの軒先のきさきには旗はたが掲かかげられていた。
The fronts of the houses were hung with flags.
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Kanji in 掲

掲put up (a notice); put upOnケイKunかかげる

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