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劉 pinyin: Liú

Liu is a common Chinese family name. The transliteration Liu can represent several different surnames written in different Chinese characters:

• 劉 / 刘, pinyin: Liú. A very common surname, as it was used by the ruling family of the Han Dynasty - a high point in the history of China.
• 柳 pinyin: Liǔ
• 留 pinyin: Liú
• 六 pinyin: Liù
• 廖 Cantonese pinyin: Liu 6

In Vietnamese, the name can either take the form "Liễu" (in northern regions), corresponding to 柳 in Chinese, or "Lưu" (in central or southern regions), corresponding to 刘/劉 or 留 in Chinese. The family name 六 is "Lục" in Vietnamese. A few having Vietnamese-Chinese descent use the family name "Lao".

In Cantonese transliteration, 刘/劉 (Liú) is Lau, Lao is also transliteration of 刘/劉 in Min Nan and Taiwanese Minnan Chinese language, whilst Liu is a different surname, 廖, pinyin: Liào, ("Liêu" in Vietnamese).

Prominent people with the family name 刘 / 劉 (Liú, Lao or Lau)

Historical

• The Liu royals of the following dynasties:
  • the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang - the Han Dynasty's founder
  • the Han Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu of Han (Liu Xiu)
  • the Shu Kingdom in the Period of the Three Kingdoms, (Liu Bei)
  • the Xiongnu Han Zhao and the Tiefu Xia kingdoms in the Period of the Sixteen Kingdoms
  • the Song Dynasty of the Southern Dynasties
  • the Later Han Dynasty and the Northern Han kingdom and the Southern Han kingdom of the Period of the Five Dynasties and the Ten Kingdoms
• Liu Ji, military strategist, statesman and prophet

Contemporary

• Evelyn Lau, writer
• Sidney Lau, Hong Kong linguist
• Lucy Liu, actress
• Rex Liu, classical bassoonist
• Will Liu, Taiwanese singer
• Henry Lau, Chinese singer
• Yang Liu, classical violinist
• Liu Bocheng, PRC military commander
• Liu Chia-Liang (Lau Kar-Leung), actor, choreographer and director
• Liu Dalin, sexologist
• Liu Dehua (Andy Lau), actor, singer
• Andrew Lau, filmmaker and actor
• Liu Boming (astronaut)
• Liu Fuzhi, PRC politician
• Liu Huan, singer
• Liu Huaqing, PRC politician
• Liu Hui, mathematician
• Liu Kang (artist)
• Liu Qi (Chinese politician), Beijing Olympics organizer
• Liu Qi-Chao, jazz musician
• Liu Shaoqi, PRC politician
• Liu Shilan, a Woman Grandmaster (WGM) in chess
• Liu Sola, singer, composer, and writer
• Liu Tianhua, composer and musician
• Liu Wen, fashion model
• Liu Wenhui, warlord
• Liu Wenjing, one of the advisors of Tang Gaozu
• Liu Xiang, Olympic winner and World Record holder
• Liu Xiang (warlord)
• Liu Xiaobo (born 1955), PRC dissident
• Liu Xiaoqing, actress
• Liu Yifei, singer/actress
• Liu Ye, actor and singer.
• Liu Yida (Tats Lau), Hong Kong actor and musician
• Lau Wan Kit, Hong Kong comic artist
• Liu Wenhui, warlord and PRC politician
• Liu Ye, Chinese actor
• Liu Yunpeng, Chinese high jumper
• Liu Zhijun, PRC politician

Prominent people with family name 柳 (Liǔ)

• Liu Gongquan, a poet and calligrapher
• Liu Zongyuan, a poet during Tang Dynasty
• Liu Yizheng, modern historian

Imperial Surname of China

See also

• All pages beginning with "Liu"

External links

• Chinese surname history: Liu

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