Liu

From several Chinese surnames, including:

• From Mandarin 劉 / 刘 (liú). Doublet of Lau, Liou, and Luu.
• From Cantonese 廖 (liu⁶). Doublet of Liao.

• (surname from Mandarin 劉): IPA^(key): (Mandarin) /ljoʊ/, (Cantonese, Taishanese, Hakka, Northern Min, Hokkien) /ljuː/
• (surname from Cantonese 廖): IPA^(key): /ljuː/ (Hong Kong) IPA^(key): [ˈliu̯]
• Homophones: lew, lieu, lue (without yod-dropping)

Liu (plural Lius)

1. A surname from Chinese.
   • 2020 April 7, Peter Conrad, “Abolish Silicon Valley by Wendy Liu review – rebooting our reality”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 14 June 2025:

     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”.

   1. A surname from Mandarin.
   2. A surname from Cantonese.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Liu is the 411^st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 78370 individuals. Liu is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (95.62%) individuals.

From Chinese surnames, from Mandarin pronunciations, especially 劉／刘 (liú).

Liu

1. a surname, Liu, from Chinese
   1. a surname from Mandarin

From Hakka (Liù, Liuˇ, Liu2) pronunciations, from Chinese 劉／刘 (liú).

Liu

1. a surname, Liu, from Chinese
   1. a surname from Hakka

• Lew, Leow

Borrowed from Mandarin 劉 / 刘 (Liú). Doublet of Lao and Lew.

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈlju/ [ˈljʊ]
    • Rhymes: -u
    • Syllabification: Li‧u
  • IPA^(key): /ˈljow/ [ˈljoʊ̯] (Mandarin Pinyin-literate)
    • Rhymes: -ow
    • Syllabification: Liu

Liu (Baybayin spelling ᜎᜒᜌᜓ)

1. a Chinese surname from Mandarin

• uli

From Mandarin 廖 (Liào).

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /liu˨˦/
• Tone numbers: Liu¹
• Hyphenation: Liu

Liu (1957–1982 spelling Liu)

1. a surname