Liu was first seen in Oracle Bone Inscriptions or Lishu. Originally meant to kill people, it was later extended to indicate weapons such as axes and cymbals, and it was also used as a surname.
Shuowen Jiezi may have been lost because of avoiding the surname Liu of Emperor Gaozu, but there are some words with Wei Liu as the radical, and the word was not found in the historical biography. On this basis, Xu Kai concluded that the traditional "Liu" was mistaken for "Tian" because of the inflexion of "Tao".
There are many combinations of Liu Zi, such as Liu Lu, Liu Du, Qian Liu, Liu Ji,,,, Liu Xiang,, Won Liu and so on.
Extended data:
First, the evolution of glyphs.
"Liu" was originally an pictographic character, but later it developed into a pictophonetic character. Oracle Bone Inscriptions "Liu", on the left is an animal hieroglyph, which looks like a big bird and an artistic person; On the right is the pictogram of a knife, which means "stabbing an animal or a person to death with a knife", intuitively expressing the original meaning of the word "Liu"-killing.
In the Bronze Age, the configuration of the character "Liu" changed greatly-from the original pictograph to the pictophonetic character: it had the word "Mao" on it, the original meaning was "separation of fetus and placenta", which could be extended to "separation", "tearing" and "killing", and it was also expressed here.
The lower left part is "gold", originally meaning "metal", which represents weapons or weapons here; The lower right part is "hand", which means "holding it with your hand" here. Together, the three are "killing people with weapons", which is the original meaning of the word "Liu".
The word "Liu" in the stage of Xiao Zhuan, written as "Yue", is a golden pictophonetic character with a lingering sound, which can be found in Shuo Wen Jie Zi. Later, the word developed into the "americium" of "gold".
The word "six" in official script and regular script continues to evolve on the basis of the second structure: "Dao" is changed to "Xian".
Second, word analysis.
1, Liu Lu
1) Pinyin: Li
2) Interpretation: Liu Kun in Jin Dynasty? Lu Chen's.
2. Liu Du
1) Pinyin: liú dù
2) Interpretation: In the late Ming Dynasty, Liu Ge and juniper were also called.
3. Liu Qian
1) Pinyin: Qin Liú
2) Definition: refers to robbery, murder and harassment.
4. Liu Ji
1) Pinyin: liú j and ι
2) Interpretation: Military strategist, politician and writer at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, the founding father of Ming Dynasty.
5. Liu Yin
1) Pinyin: y and yěn Liú
2) Interpretation: the names of Yin Hao and Liu Wei in the Eastern Jin Dynasty; Yin and Liu Zhan in Southern Song Dynasty.
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