(classical) a type of battle-ax; to kill; to slaughter

bangs; fringe (hair)

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 Xiang (77-6 BC), Han Dynasty scholar and author

Liu Ji or Liu Bowen 劉伯溫|刘伯温[Liu2 Bo2 wen1] (1311-1375), general under the first Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋[Zhu1 Yuan2 zhang1], with a reputation as a military genius

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

Liu Shi, personal name of Han Emperor Yuandi 漢元帝|汉元帝[Han4 Yuan2 di4]

Liu An (179-122 BC), King of Huainan under the Western Han, ordered the writing of the 淮南子[Huai2 nan2 zi5]

Song of the Southern dynasties 南朝宋 (420-479), with capital at Nanjing

Liu Heng, personal name of Han emperor Han Wendi 漢文帝|汉文帝; Liu Heng (1954-), Chinese writer

Liu Xu (887-946), politician in Later Jin of the Five Dynasties 後晉|后晋[Hou4 Jin4], compiled History of Early Tang Dynasty 舊唐書|旧唐书[Jiu4 Tang2 shu1]

Liu Yi (-285), famous incorruptible official of Western Jin dynasty the Western Jin dynasty 西晉|西晋[Xi1 Jin4] (265-316); Liu Yi (-412), general of Eastern Jin dynasty 東晉|东晋[Dong1 Jin4] (317-420)

Liu Yang (1978-), China's first female astronaut in space (June 16, 2012)

Liu Yuan (c. 251–310), warlord at the end of the Western Jin dynasty 西晉|西晋[Xi1 Jin4], founder of Cheng Han of the Sixteen Kingdoms 成漢|成汉[Cheng2 Han4] (304–347)

Liu Xi (late Han, c. 200 AD), possibly the author of 釋名|释名[Shi4 ming2]

Liu Shan (207-271), son of Liu Bei, reigned as Shu Han emperor 233-263; Taiwan pr. [Liu2 Chan2]

Liu Xiang (1983-), Chinese gold-medal hurdler of the 2004 Olympic Games

Liu Biao (142-208), warlord

Liu Yu, founder of Song of the Southern dynasties 劉宋|刘宋[Liu2 Song4], broke away from Eastern Jin in 420, reigned as Emperor Wu of Song 宋武帝[Song4 Wu3 di4]

Liu E (1857-1909), late Qing novelist, author of 老殘遊記|老残游记[Lao3 Can2 You2 ji4]

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[Shi4 shuo1 Xin1 yu3]

Liu Yunshan (1947-), PRC politician, background in journalism in Inner Mongolia, head of the Central Propaganda Department 2002-2012

Liu Bowen (1311–1375), general under the first Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang 朱元璋[Zhu1 Yuan2 zhang1], with a reputation as a military genius, also known as Liu Ji 劉基|刘基[Liu2 Ji1]

Liu Guangdi (1859-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs 戊戌六君子[Wu4 xu1 Liu4 jun1 zi5] of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898

Liugong island in the Yellow sea

Liu Houzong (1904-1949), originally Hunan guerilla leader, rewarded by Chiang Kaishek for killing Xiang Ying 項英|项英[Xiang4 Ying1] during the 1941 New Fourth Army incident 皖南事變|皖南事变[Wan3 nan2 Shi4 bian4]

Liu Tianhua (1895-1932), Chinese musician and composer

Gordon Liu (1955-), Hong Kong action actor

Liu Binyan (1925-2005), journalist and novelist, condemned by Mao as rightist faction in 1957, subsequently dissident writer

Liu Shaoqi (1898-1969), Chinese communist leader, a martyr of the Cultural Revolution

Liu Shipei (1884-1919), Chinese anarchist and revolutionary activist

Andy Lau (1961-), Hong Kong Cantopop singer and actor

Liu Xinwu (1942-), novelist

Liu Cixin (1963-), Chinese science fiction writer

Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), Beijing writer and human rights activist, organizer of petition Charter 2008 零八憲章|零八宪章[Ling2 ba1 Xian4 zhang1], Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2010

Ferdinand Augustin Hallerstein (1703-1774), Slovenian Jesuit missionary, astronomer and mathematician, spent 35 years at Emperor Qianlong's court

Liu Juanzi, legendary alchemist and creator of magic potions

Liu Yuxi (772-842), Tang poet

Liu Guijin (1945–), Chinese diplomat, ambassador to South Africa 2001–2007

Liu Jinbao (1952-), CEO of the Bank of China (Hong Kong) 1997-2003, jailed after being convicted of embezzlement

Lau Ching-Wan (1964-), Hong Kong actor

Song of the Southern dynasties (420-479), with capital at Nanjing

Liu Juanzi's medical recipes bequeathed by the ghost Huang Fugui 黃父鬼|黄父鬼

Granny Liu visits the Grand View gardens; (of a simple person) to be overwhelmed by new experiences and luxurious surroundings