刘

liú = li + ou2

surname Liu

刘 = 刂 + 文 : Mnemonic symbol: 刘三姐, third sister Liu.

Li Qingzhao and Liu Sanjie are fighting for the title "artist of the universe" in the outhouse's kitchen. Their weapons: each one has a knife, and a thick book of her respective works to use as a shield.

liú = li + ou2

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

刘 = 刂 + 文 : Mnemonic symbol: 刘三姐, third sister Liu.

Li Qingzhao and Liu Sanjie are fighting for the title "artist of the universe" in the outhouse's kitchen. Their weapons: each one has a knife, and a thick book of her respective works to use as a shield.

刘 character breakdown

刘
- 刂
  - 丨
  - 亅
- 文
  - 乂
    - 丿
    - ㇏
  - 亠
    - 一
    - 丶

da̅o = d + ao1

Kangxi radical 18 (刀[dao1]) as a vertical side element / see also 立刀旁[li4 dao1 pang2] / see also 側刀旁|侧刀旁[ce4 dao1 pang2]

刂 = 丨 + 亅 : Mnemonic symbol: a kitchen knife. Don Quixote (d) is showing off his special knifes in front of the aorta (ao1). One is made from a dinosaur bone (丨), and the other is made from a crowbar (亅).

wén = w + (e)n2

language / culture / writing / formal / literary / gentle / (old) classifier for coins / Kangxi radical 67

文 = 乂 + 亠 : Mnemonic symbol: a thick book.

Willy Walrus (w) wants to cook in the encampment's kitchen ((e)n2). The recipe book (文) is extremely greasy and Willy doesn't want it to touch anything, nor touch it. That's why he puts it into a beret (亠) so that it doesn't touch the floor, and uses pliers (乂) to turn the pages.

Characters with 刘 as component

liú = li + ou2

clear / deep (of water) / swift

浏 = 刘 + 氵 : Li Qingzhao (li) found that Liu Sanjie (刘) emptied a magical water bottle (氵) in the outhouse's kitchen (ou2). They're both standing waist-deep (浏) in very clear (浏) water.

Words with 刘

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

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

Liu Xinwu (1942-), novelist

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

Liu Cixin (1963-), Chinese science fiction 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 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 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 Juanzi, legendary alchemist and creator of magic potions

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

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 Yuxi (772-842), Tang poet

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 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 Guijin (1945-), PRC diplomat, special representative to Africa from 2007, Chinese specialist on Sudan and the Darfur issue

Sentences with 刘

刘 currently does not appear in any sentence.