in English

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

Stroke order

Le caractère 刘 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes
Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 刘 Show the animation
Le caractère 劉 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ
Numbered strokes

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

These are the forms of 劉, the traditional character: 刘 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

Examples

  • 刘备和诸葛亮是一支无法战胜的队伍。

    Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang are an unbeatable team.

  • 刘晓波是中国人。

    Liu Xiaobo is Chinese.

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