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Liu
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Appendix:Variations of "liu"
English
Etymology
From several en zh - surnames, including:
From en cmn 劉. en Lau Luu.
From en yue 廖. en Liao.
Pronunciation
surname from Mandarin cmn 劉 en /liˈoʊ/ like Mandarin /liˈu/ like Taishanese, Hakka, Northern Min, Hokkien, etc; also /ˈlu/, lyō
surname from Cantonese yue 廖 en /ˈliu̯/ HK
en lew lieu lue<aa:without yod-dropping>
Proper noun
s
en Chinese.
en Abolish Silicon Valley by Wendy Liu review – rebooting our reality w:The Guardian Peter Conrad 2020-04-07 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/apr/07/abolish-silicon-valley-by-wendy-liu-review-rebooting-our-reality 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”. https://web.archive.org/web/20250614160207/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/apr/07/abolish-silicon-valley-by-wendy-liu-review-rebooting-our-reality
en Mandarin.
en Cantonese.
Translations
surname 劉/刘
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 劉 lau4
Hakka: hak 劉
Mandarin: cmn 劉 Liú
Hungarian: hu Liu
Indonesian: id Liu
Javanese: jv
Vietnamese: vi Lưu, vi 劉
Zhuang: za Liuz
Statistics
According to the 2010 United States Census, Liu is the 411st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 78370 individuals. Liu is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (95.62%) individuals.
See also
en Lü#Etymology_3<qq:not to be confused; sounds different>
Hungarian
Etymology
From hu zh - surnames, from hu cmn - pronunciations, especially 劉.
Proper noun
hu proper noun
hu Chinese Liu
hu Mandarin
Indonesian
Etymology
From id hak - Liù, Liuˇ, Liu2 pronunciations, from id zh - 劉.
Proper noun
id Chinese Liu
id Hakka
Tagalog
Alternative forms
tl Lew Leow
Etymology
tl :bor cmn:劉<tr:Liú> + 1 Lao,Lew
Pronunciation
+ liow<qq:Mandarin Pinyin-literate><syll:#>
Proper noun
liyu
tl Chinese Mandarin
Anagrams
tl ilu uli
Zhuang
Etymology
From za cmn - ^廖.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
proper noun
za