刘晓波

Traditional form:

劉曉波

Pinyin (reading):

Liú Xiǎobō

Definitions:

• Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), Beijing writer and human rights activist, organizer of petition Charter 2008 零八憲章／零八宪章 ( Língbā Xiànzhāng), Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 2010

Characters:

• 刘 - to kill, to destroy; surname
• 晓 - dawn; clear, explicit, known
• 波 - waves, ripples, breakers; undulations

Traditional characters:

• 劉 - to kill, to destroy; surname
• 曉 - dawn; clear, explicit, known
• 波 - waves, ripples, breakers; undulations