Liú Shào 劉卲 / 劉邵 / 劉劭 (first half of the 3rd century, fl. c. 220–245), zì Kǒngcái 孔才, of Hándān 邯鄲 in Guǎngpíng commandery 廣平郡 (modern southern Hébei), was a CáoWèi court scholar and statutory writer whose only fully transmitted work is the Rénwù zhì 人物志 (KR3j0011). His biography is in Sānguó zhì · Wèi shū 21. He emerged into prominence under Cáo Cāo’s late administration as an jìjiǔ 祭酒 of the Imperial Library and rose under Cáo Pī to Sǎnqí chángshì 散騎常侍 (Cavalier Attendant-in-Ordinary, in the Huángchū period 220–226), with concurrent responsibilities in the codification of the CáoWèi statutes; under Emperor Míng 明帝 (r. 226–239) and the early Zhèngshǐ regency, he was enfeoffed as a Marquis Within the Passes 關內侯. With Wáng Lǎng 王朗, Wèi Jì 衛覬, and others he co-compiled the Xīnlǜ 新律 (CáoWèi statute code) in eighteen piān and several large lost compilations, including a Huánglǎn 皇覽-style imperial encyclopedia, a Dū guān kǎo kè 都官考課 (treatise on the assessment of officials, presented to Emperor Míng and credited as a model for later civil-service evaluation), a Lǐlùn lüè 律略, and the Zhào dū fù 趙都賦 (a fù on his native city). All these are lost. The Rénwù zhì — together with the brief Northern-Liáng / Northern-Wèi commentary of Liú Bǐng 劉昞 — survives entire and is the most systematic Chinese essay on character-typology and personnel-evaluation, the conceptual root of the WèiJìn cáixìng 才性 (“talent-and-nature”) debate. CBDB id 32851 records his name as 劉邵, the orthography preferred by Sòng Xiáng 宋庠 (Northern Sòng) on philological grounds — though the printed Sìkù recension uses 劉卲 (the Kanripo catalogue and frontmatter follow the Sìkù form for compatibility).