劉 — Chinese character
劉
liú
to kill, to destroy; surname
- Pinyin
- liú
- Radical
- 18 ⼑ (Knife)
- Strokes
- 15
- Components
- 卯 金 刂
- Formation
- pictophonetic — knife; meaning component 刂; sound component 卯
- Simplified
- 刘
- Japanese
- 劉 as a kanji
劉 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.