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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA surname from Chinese. · A surname from Mandarin. · A surname from Cantonese.
From several Chinese surnames, including: * From Mandarin 劉 /刘 (liú). Doublet of Lau and Luu. * From Cantonese 廖 (liu⁶). Doublet of Liao.
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