Chinese words starting with 刘 (liú)
43 words.
- 刘备 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
- 刘少奇 Liu Shaoqi (1898-1969), Chinese communist leader, a martyr of the Cultural Revolution
- 刘邦 Liu Bang (256 or 247-195 BC), bandit leader who became first Han emperor Han Gaozu 汉高祖
- 刘翔 Liu Xiang (1983-), Chinese gold-medal hurdler of the 2004 Olympic Games
- 刘裕 Liu Yu, founder of Song of the Southern dynasties 刘宋 liúsòng, broke away from Eastern Jin in 420, reigned as Emperor Wu of Song 宋武帝 sòngwǔdì
- 刘基 Liu Ji or Liu Bowen 刘伯温 liúbówēn (1311-1375), general under the first Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋 zhūyuánzhāng, with a reputation as a military genius
- 刘表 Liu Biao (142-208), warlord
- 刘伯温 Liu Bowen (1311–1375), general under the first Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋 zhūyuánzhāng, with a reputation as a military genius, also known as Liu Ji 刘基 liújī
- 刘晓波 Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), Beijing writer and human rights activist, organizer of petition Charter 2008 零八宪章 língbāxiànzhāng, Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2010
- 刘海 bangs
- 刘公岛 Liugong island in the Yellow sea
- 刘安 Liu An (179-122 BC), King of Huainan under the Western Han, ordered the writing of the 淮南子 huáinánzi
- 刘渊 Liu Yuan (c. 251–310), warlord at the end of the Western Jin dynasty 西晋 xījìn, founder of Cheng Han of the Sixteen Kingdoms 成汉 chénghàn
- 刘宋 Song of the Southern dynasties 南朝宋 (420-479), with capital at Nanjing
- 刘禹锡 Liu Yuxi (772-842), Tang poet
- 刘心武 Liu Xinwu (1942-), novelist
- 刘禅 Liu Shan (207-271), son of Liu Bei, reigned as Shu Han emperor 233-263
- 刘恒 Liu Heng, personal name of Han emperor Han Wendi 汉文帝
- 刘德华 Andy Lau (1961-), Hong Kong Cantopop singer and actor
- 刘云山 Liu Yunshan (1947-), PRC politician, background in journalism in Inner Mongolia, head of the Central Propaganda Department 2002-2012
- 刘光第 Liu Guangdi (1859-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子 wùxūliùjūnzi of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898
- 刘师培 Liu Shipei (1884-1919), Chinese anarchist and revolutionary activist
- 刘义庆 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 shìshuōxīnyǔ
- 刘天华 Liu Tianhua (1895-1932), Chinese musician and composer
- 刘家辉 Gordon Liu (1955-), Hong Kong action actor
- 刘慈欣 Liu Cixin (1963-), Chinese science fiction writer
- 刘青云 Lau Ching-Wan (1964-), Hong Kong actor
- 刘厚总 Liu Houzong (1904-1949), originally Hunan guerilla leader, rewarded by Chiang Kaishek for killing Xiang Ying 项英 xiàngyīng during the 1941 New Fourth Army incident 皖南事变 wǎnnánshìbiàn
- 刘向 Liu Xiang (77-6 BC), Han Dynasty scholar and author
- 刘奭 Liu Shi, personal name of Han Emperor Yuandi 汉元帝 hànyuándì
- 刘姥姥进大观园 Granny Liu visits the Grand View gardens
- 刘宋时代 Song of the Southern dynasties (420-479), with capital at Nanjing
- 刘宾雁 Liu Binyan (1925-2005), journalist and novelist, condemned by Mao as rightist faction in 1957, subsequently dissident writer
- 刘昫 Liu Xu (887-946), politician in Later Jin of the Five Dynasties 后晋 hòujìn, compiled History of Early Tang Dynasty 旧唐书 jiùtángshū
- 刘松龄 Ferdinand Augustin Hallerstein (1703-1774), Slovenian Jesuit missionary, astronomer and mathematician, spent 35 years at Emperor Qianlong's court
- 刘毅 Liu Yi (-285), famous incorruptible official of Western Jin dynasty the Western Jin dynasty 西晋 xījìn
- 刘洋 Liu Yang (1978-), China's first female astronaut in space
- 刘涓子 Liu Juanzi, legendary alchemist and creator of magic potions
- 刘涓子鬼遗方 Liu Juanzi's medical recipes bequeathed by the ghost Huang Fugui 黄父鬼
- 刘熙 Liu Xi (late Han, c. 200 AD), possibly the author of 释名 shìmíng
- 刘贵今 Liu Guijin (1945–), Chinese diplomat, ambassador to South Africa 2001–2007
- 刘金宝 Liu Jinbao (1952-), CEO of the Bank of China (Hong Kong) 1997-2003, jailed after being convicted of embezzlement
- 刘鹗 Liu E (1857-1909), late Qing novelist, author of 老残游记 lǎocányóujì