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刘
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Definitions
- 1. (classical) a type of battle-ax
- 2. to kill
- 3. to slaughter
Words Containing 刘
Liujiakuang township in Muping district 牟平區|牟平区, Yantai, Shandong
Liu Cixin (1963-), Chinese science fiction writer
Liu Yunshan (1947-), PRC politician, background in journalism in Inner Mongolia, head of the Central Propaganda Department 2002-2012
Liu Xu (887-946), politician in Later Jin of the Five Dynasties 後晉|后晋[hòu jìn], compiled History of Early Tang Dynasty 舊唐書|旧唐书[jiù táng shū]
Liu Tianhua (1895-1932), Chinese musician and composer
Liu E (1857-1909), late Qing novelist, author of 老殘遊記|老残游记[lǎo cán yóu jì]
Liu Yuxi (772-842), Tang poet
Liu Yu, founder of Song of the Southern dynasties 劉宋|刘宋[liú sòng], broke away from Eastern Jin in 420, reigned as Emperor Wu of Song 宋武帝[sòng wǔ dì]
Liu Yang (1978-), China's first female astronaut in space (June 16, 2012)
Liu Shaoqi (1898-1969), Chinese communist leader, a martyr of the Cultural Revolution
Liu Biao (142-208), warlord
Liu Yi (-285), famous incorruptible official of Western Jin dynasty the Western Jin dynasty 西晉|西晋[xī jìn] (265-316)
Liu Houzong (1904-1949), originally Hunan guerilla leader, rewarded by Chiang Kaishek for killing Xiang Ying 項英|项英[xiàng yīng] during the 1941 New Fourth Army incident 皖南事變|皖南事变[wǎn nán shì biàn]
Liu Juanzi, legendary alchemist and creator of magic potions
Liu An (179-122 BC), King of Huainan under the Western Han, ordered the writing of the 淮南子[huái nán zi]
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[shì shuō xīn yǔ]
Liu Shan (207-271), son of Liu Bei, reigned as Shu Han emperor 233-263
Liu Yu, founder of Southern dynasty Song 劉宋|刘宋, broke away from Eastern Jin in 420
Lau Ching-Wan (1964-), Hong Kong actor
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)
Liu Guijin (1945-), PRC diplomat, special representative to Africa from 2007, Chinese specialist on Sudan and the Darfur issue
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Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), Beijing writer and human rights activist, organizer of petition Charter 2008 零八憲章|零八宪章[líng bā xiàn zhāng], Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2010
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
Liujiakuang township in Muping district 牟平區|牟平区, Yantai, Shandong
Andy Lau (1961-), Hong Kong Cantopop singer and actor
Liu Xiang (77-6 BC), Han Dynasty scholar and author
Song of the Southern dynasties 南朝宋 (420-479), with capital at Nanjing
Liu Jinbao (1952-), CEO of the Bank of China (Hong Kong) 1997-2003, jailed after being convicted of embezzlement
Liu Xinwu (1942-), novelist
Liujia village in Zhangdian District 張店區|张店区[zhāng diàn qū] of Zhibo city 淄博市[zī bó shì], Shandong
Liu Juanzi's medical recipes bequeathed by the ghost Huang Fugui 黃父鬼|黄父鬼
Liu Yuan (c. 251-310), warlord at the end of the Western Jin dynasty 西晉|西晋[xī jìn], founder of Cheng Han of the Sixteen Kingdoms 成漢|成汉[chéng hàn] (304-347)
Granny Liu visits the Grand View gardens
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
Liu Shi, personal name of Han Emperor Yuandi 漢元帝|汉元帝[hàn yuán dì]
Liu Binyan (1925-2005), journalist and novelist, condemned by Mao as rightist faction in 1957, subsequently dissident writer
Liu Xi (late Han, c. 200 AD), possibly the author of 釋名|释名[shì míng]
Liu Heng, personal name of Han emperor Han Wendi 漢文帝|汉文帝
Song of the Southern dynasties (420-479), with capital at Nanjing
Liu Jianfeng (1936-), second governor of Hainan
Liu Shipei (1884-1919), Chinese anarchist and revolutionary activist
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 called Liu Ji 劉基|刘基[liú jī]
Liugong island in the Yellow sea
Liu Ji or Liu Bowen 劉伯溫|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
Ferdinand Augustin Hallerstein (1703-1774), Slovenian Jesuit missionary, astronomer and mathematician, spent 35 years at Emperor Qianlong's court
Gordon Liu (1955-), Hong Kong action actor
Liu Heng (202-157 BC), the fourth Han emperor Han Wendi, reigned 180-157 BC