Cantonese · Jyutping
Mandarin · Pinyin
- liú
- Liú
English
- surname
- surname Liu
- (classical) a type of battle-ax
- a surname, usually transliterated as "Lau" or "Lao"
- kill, destroy
- to kill
- to slaughter
粵語
- 姓
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Variants
Words containing 劉
- 劉備lau4 bei2
Liu Bei (161-223), warlord at the end of the Han dynasty and founder of the Han kingdom of Shu 蜀漢|蜀汉 (c. 200-263), later the Shu Han dynasty
- 劉海lau4 hoi2
bangs
- 劉明lau4 ming4
to leave a comment under a post in a forum or social networking site, so that one can receive notifications; literally: put down name
- 劉向lau4 hoeng3
Liu Xiang (77-6 BC), Han Dynasty scholar and author
- 劉安lau4 on1
Liu An (179-122 BC), King of Huainan under the Western Han, ordered the writing of the 淮南子[Huai2 nan2 zi5]
- 劉邦lau4 bong1
Liu Bang (256 or 247-195 BC), bandit leader who became first Han emperor Han Gaozu 漢高祖|汉高祖 (reigned 202-195 BC)
- 劉表lau4 biu2
Liu Biao (142-208), warlord
- 劉基lau4 gei1
Liu Ji or Liu Bowen 劉伯溫|刘伯温[Liu2 Bo2 wen1] (1311-1375), general under the first Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋[Zhu1 Yuan2 zhang1], with a reputation as a military genius
- 劉翔lau4 coeng4
Liu Xiang (1983-), Chinese gold-medal hurdler of the 2004 Olympic Games
- 劉光第lau4 gwong1 dai6
Liu Guangdi (1859-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子[Wu4 xu1 Liu4 jun1 zi5] of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898
- 劉宋lau4 sung3
Song of the Southern dynasties 南朝宋 (420-479), with capital at Nanjing
- 劉洋lau4 joeng4
Liu Yang (1978-), China's first female astronaut in space (June 16, 2012)
- 劉裕lau4 jyu6
Liu Yu, founder of Song of the Southern dynasties 劉宋|刘宋[Liu2 Song4], broke away from Eastern Jin in 420, reigned as Emperor Wu of Song 宋武帝[Song4 Wu3 di4]
- 劉少奇lau4 siu2 kei4
Liu Shaoqi (1898-1969), Chinese communist leader, a martyr of the Cultural Revolution
- 劉義慶lau4 ji6 hing3
Liu Yiqing (403-444), writer of South Song Dynasty, compiler and editor of A New Account of the Tales of the World 世說新語|世说新语[Shi4 shuo1 Xin1 yu3]
- 劉恆lau4 hang4
Liu Heng, personal name of Han emperor Han Wendi 漢文帝|汉文帝
- 劉鶚lau4 ngok6
Liu E (1857-1909), late Qing novelist, author of 老殘遊記|老残游记[Lao3 Can2 You2 ji4]
- 劉伯溫lau4 baak3 wan1
Liu Bowen (1311–1375), general under the first Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋[Zhu1 Yuan2 zhang1], with a reputation as a military genius, also known as Liu Ji 劉基|刘基[Liu2 Ji1]
- 劉禪lau4 sim4
Liu Shan (207-271), son of Liu Bei, reigned as Shu Han emperor 233-263
- 劉德華lau4 dak1 waa4
Andy Lau (1961-), Hong Kong Cantopop singer and actor
- 劉熙lau4 hei1
Liu Xi (late Han, c. 200 AD), possibly the author of 釋名|释名[Shi4 ming2]
- 劉曉波lau4 hiu2 bo1
Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), Beijing writer and human rights activist, organizer of petition Charter 2008 零八憲章|零八宪章[Ling2 ba1 Xian4 zhang1], Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2010
- 劉松齡lau4 cung4 ling4
Ferdinand Augustin Hallerstein (1703-1774), Slovenian Jesuit missionary, astronomer and mathematician, spent 35 years at Emperor Qianlong's court
- 劉毅lau4 ngai6
Liu Yi (-285), famous incorruptible official of Western Jin dynasty the Western Jin dynasty 西晉|西晋[Xi1 Jin4] (265-316)