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Liu

proper noun

  1. family name
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /liˈoʊ/ / /liˈu/ / /ˈliu̯/

name

Etymology: From several Chinese surnames, including: * From Mandarin 劉 /刘 (liú). Doublet of Lau and Luu. * From Cantonese 廖 (liu⁶). Doublet of Liao.

  1. A surname from Chinese.

    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”.

  2. A surname from Chinese.
  3. A surname from Chinese.