The present invention provides a high-contrast reflective display and
transmissive display with a wide viewing angle in a transflective liquid
crystal display device having reflective and transmissive structures. In
such a display, each of dots can contain a reflective display region for
reflective display and a transmissive display region for transmissive
display. A liquid crystal layer can be composed of a nematic liquid
crystal aligned substantially perpendicularly to substrates and having a
negative dielectric anisotropy. A first retardation film having an
optically negative uniaxiality, a second retardation film having an
optically positive uniaxiality, and a first polarizer are arranged in
that order outside an upper substrate, and a third retardation film
having an optically negative uniaxiality, a fourth retardation film
having an optically positive uniaxiality, a second polarizer, and
illumination means are arranged in that order outside a lower substrate.