A liquid crystal display is furnished with: a liquid crystal display element
having
a pair of substrates, to which alignment members are provided to their respective
opposing surfaces, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched by the pair of substrates;
an alignment mechanism for providing at least two different director configurations
simultaneously on different arbitrary regions used for display in the liquid crystal
layer; and a reflection film provided to at least one of the different arbitrary
regions showing different director configurations; wherein the different arbitrary
regions showing different director configurations are used for a reflection display
section for showing reflection display and a transmission display section for showing
transmission display, respectively. Examples of the alignment mechanism include
an alignment film to which the alignment treatment is applied in different orientations
in the reflection display section and transmission display section, respectively,
an insulation film having different film thicknesses in the reflection display
section and transmission display section, and so forth.
