1. (classical) a type of battle-ax2. to kill3. to slaughter4. surname Liu+1 条 Andy Lau (1961-), Hong Kong Cantopop singer and actor
Liu Xiang (1983-), Chinese gold-medal hurdler of the 2004 Olympic Games
Liu Bei (161-223), warlord at the end of the Han dynasty and founder of the Han kingdom of Shu 蜀汉 (c. 200-263), later the Shu Han dynasty
Liu Ji or Liu Bowen 刘伯温[liú bó wēn] (1311-1375), general under the first Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋[zhū yuán zhāng], with a reputation as a military genius
Liu An (179-122 BC), King of Huainan under the Western Han, ordered the writing of the 淮南子[huái nán zi]
Song of the Southern dynasties 南朝宋 (420-479), with capital at Nanjing
1. Liu Heng, personal name of Han emperor Han Wendi 汉文帝2. Liu Heng (1954-), Chinese writer
Liu Yuan (c. 251–310), warlord at the end of the Western Jin dynasty 西晋[xī jìn], founder of Cheng Han of the Sixteen Kingdoms 成汉[chéng hàn] (304–347)
1. Liu Shan (207-271), son of Liu Bei, reigned as Shu Han emperor 233-2632. Taiwan pr. [liú chán]
Liu Biao (142-208), warlord
Liu Yu, founder of Song of the Southern dynasties 刘宋[liú sòng], broke away from Eastern Jin in 420, reigned as Emperor Wu of Song 宋武帝[sòng wǔ dì]
Liu Bang (256 or 247-195 BC), bandit leader who became first Han emperor Han Gaozu 汉高祖 (reigned 202-195 BC)
Liu Bowen (1311–1375), general under the first Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋[zhū yuán zhāng], with a reputation as a military genius, also known as Liu Ji 刘基[liú jī]
Liu Guangdi (1859-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子[wù xū liù jūn zi] of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898
Liugong island in the Yellow sea
Liu Tianhua (1895-1932), Chinese musician and composer
Gordon Liu (1955-), Hong Kong action actor
Liu Shaoqi (1898-1969), Chinese communist leader, a martyr of the Cultural Revolution
Liu Shipei (1884-1919), Chinese anarchist and revolutionary activist
Liu Xinwu (1942-), novelist
Liu Cixin (1963-), Chinese science fiction writer
Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), Beijing writer and human rights activist, organizer of petition Charter 2008 零八宪章[líng bā xiàn zhāng], Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2010
Liu Yuxi (772-842), Tang poet
Liu Yiqing (403-444), writer of South Song Dynasty, compiler and editor of A New Account of the Tales of the World 世说新语[shì shuō xīn yǔ]
Liu Yunshan (1947-), PRC politician, background in journalism in Inner Mongolia, head of the Central Propaganda Department 2002-2012
Lau Ching-Wan (1964-), Hong Kong actor
Liu Xiang (77-6 BC), Han Dynasty scholar and author
Liu Shi, personal name of Han Emperor Yuandi 汉元帝[hàn yuán dì]
Liu Xu (887-946), politician in Later Jin of the Five Dynasties 后晋[hòu jìn], compiled History of Early Tang Dynasty 旧唐书[jiù táng shū]
1. Liu Yi (-285), famous incorruptible official of Western Jin dynasty the Western Jin dynasty 西晋[xī jìn] (265-316)2. Liu Yi (-412), general of Eastern Jin dynasty 东晋[dōng jìn] (317-420)
Liu Yang (1978-), China's first female astronaut in space (June 16, 2012)
Liu Xi (late Han, c. 200 AD), possibly the author of 释名[shì míng]
Liu E (1857-1909), late Qing novelist, author of 老残游记[lǎo cán yóu jì]
Liu Houzong (1904-1949), originally Hunan guerilla leader, rewarded by Chiang Kaishek for killing Xiang Ying 项英[xiàng yīng] during the 1941 New Fourth Army incident 皖南事变[wǎn nán shì biàn]
Ferdinand Augustin Hallerstein (1703-1774), Slovenian Jesuit missionary, astronomer and mathematician, spent 35 years at Emperor Qianlong's court
Liu Juanzi, legendary alchemist and creator of magic potions
Liu Guijin (1945–), Chinese diplomat, ambassador to South Africa 2001–2007
Liu Binyan (1925-2005), journalist and novelist, condemned by Mao as rightist faction in 1957, subsequently dissident writer
Liu Jinbao (1952-), CEO of the Bank of China (Hong Kong) 1997-2003, jailed after being convicted of embezzlement
Song of the Southern dynasties (420-479), with capital at Nanjing
汉文帝刘恒 漢文帝劉恆 hàn wén dì liú héng Liu Heng (202-157 BC), the fourth Han emperor Han Wendi, reigned 180-157 BC
刘涓子鬼遗方 劉涓子鬼遺方 liú juān zǐ guǐ yí fāng Liu Juanzi's medical recipes bequeathed by the ghost Huang Fugui 黄父鬼
刘姥姥进大观园 劉姥姥進大觀園 liú lǎo lao jìn dà guān yuán 1. Granny Liu visits the Grand View gardens2. (of a simple person) to be overwhelmed by new experiences and luxurious surroundings