There are two ways of writing Liu, one is the traditional style, and the other is the popular style. "Liu" without a dot is another way of writing Liu.
The word "Liu" was first seen in bronze inscriptions. It can be seen from the glyphs of ancient Chinese characters such as bronze inscriptions, large seal scripts and small seal scripts. The upper right part of the character "Liu" is the word "zi" facing down. In modern scripts such as official script and regular script, there are two ways of writing "liu" with dots and "liu" without dots.
The picture above is the evolution of the glyph for "flow".
The "Qianlu Zi Shu" of the Tang Dynasty states that the former is the orthodox style and the latter is the secular style. But in actual writing, this kind of secular "flow" without adding dots was more favored by the ancients. For example, the two characters "flow" in Wang Xizhi's "Lanting Preface", the five characters "flow" in Ouyang Xun's "Jiucheng Palace Liquan Ming", and the two characters "flow" in Tang Bohu's "Luohua Poems" are not dotted.
Extended information
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1. Pinyin: liú
2. Pinyin: ㄌㄧㄡˊ
< p>3. Radical: 氵4. Strokes outside the radical: 7
5. Total strokes: 10
6. Stroke order: 4414154325
7. Coding: CJK
8. Wubi: IYCQ
9. English meaning: Flow
10. Chinese character decomposition: 氵流< /p>
11. Decomposition of Chinese character parts: 氵亠厶川
12. Stroke order number: 4414154325
13. Stroke order reading and writing: 捺捺捺lateral fold 捺淺 Vertical fold
14. Definition: The original meaning refers to the flow of water, and the extended meaning is the transfer of materials between reservoirs.
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