Liu

//liˈoʊ// name

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Chinese.

    "We now have good reason to question the pursuits of the vaunted innovators with whom Liu consorted in California – the blissed-out cultists at Google, whose only worry is over “the wrong kind of sparkling water in the microkitchens”, or the manic experts who specialise in “envisioning hyperplanes in n-dimensional space”."

  2. 2
    A surname from Chinese.; A surname from Mandarin.
  3. 3
    A surname from Chinese.; A surname from Cantonese.

Example

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"Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang are an unbeatable team."

Etymology

From several Chinese surnames, including: * From Mandarin 劉 /刘 (liú). Doublet of Lau and Luu. * From Cantonese 廖 (liu⁶). Doublet of Liao.

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