劉

See also: 刘

Translingual

Han character

劉 (Kangxi radical 18, 刀+13, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹金中弓 (HCLN), four-corner 7210₀, composition ⿰𨥫刂)

Derived characters

• 𪝵, 嚠, 嬼, 𢷶, 瀏(浏), 懰, 𣞗, 𭶣, 𨮸, 䬟, 𩙔, 藰, 䉧, 𢤐

Descendants

• 刘 (Simplified Chinese)

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 144, character 39
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 2224
• Dae Jaweon: page 325, character 16
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 1, page 359, character 4
• Unihan data for U+5289

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Chinese

trad.		劉
simp.		刘

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (卯) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
卯	*mruːʔ
昴	*mruːʔ
泖	*mruːʔ
茆	*mruːʔ, *m·ruʔ
奅	*m̥ʰruːs
窌	*m̥ʰruːs, *m·ruː, *m·rus
聊	*m·rɯːw
貿	*mlus
鄮	*mlus
劉	*m·ru
留	*m·ru, *m·rus
蒥	*m·ru
鶹	*m·ru
騮	*m·ru
榴	*m·ru
瑠	*ru
瘤	*m·ru, *m·rus
遛	*m·ru
鎦	*m·ru
飀	*m·ru
鰡	*m·ru
嵧	*m·ru
餾	*m·ru, *m·rus
瀏	*m·ru, *m·ruʔ
懰	*m·ru, *m·ruʔ
柳	*m·ruʔ
珋	*m·ruʔ
罶	*m·ruʔ
嬼	*m·ruʔ, *m·rus
溜	*m·rus
霤	*m·rus
廇	*m·rus
塯	*m·rus

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *m·ru) : phonetic 卯 (OC *mruːʔ) + semantic 金 (“metal”) + semantic 刂 (“knife”).

Often written as 卯 (OC *mruːʔ) in the oracle bone script.

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “is the surname related to the sense "to kill"?”)

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 劉

1. ^† a type of battle axe

   一人冕，執劉，立于東堂。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
   一人冕，执刘，立于东堂。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

   From: The Book of Documents, circa 4^th – 3^rd century BCE

   Yīrén miǎn, zhí liú, lì yú dōng táng. [Pinyin]

   One man in a great officer's cap, and holding an axe, stood in the hall, (near the steps) at the east (end).

2. ^† to kill; to slaughter

   我王來，既爰宅于茲；重我民，無盡劉。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
   我王来，既爰宅于兹；重我民，无尽刘。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

   From: The Book of Documents, circa 4^th – 3^rd century BCE

   Wǒ wáng lái, jì yuán zhái yú zī; zhòng wǒ mín, wú jìn liú. [Pinyin]

   Our king came, and fixed on this. He did so from a deep concern for our people, and did not wish to see them all being killed.

3. a surname

   劉邦／刘邦  ―  Liú Bāng  ―  Liu Bang

Descendants

• → English: Liu, Lau
• → Tagalog: Lao

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Japanese

Kanji

劉

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

1. axe
2. kill

Readings

• Go-on: る (ru)
• Kan-on: りゅう (ryū)^{←りう (riu, historical)}
• Kun: ころす (korosu, 劉す); つらねる (tsuraneru, 劉ねる)

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Korean

Hanja

劉 • (ryu>yu) (hangeul 류>유)

1. Mostly used in surname

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Vietnamese

Han character

劉: Hán Nôm readings: Lưu

1. A Vietnamese family name