In a semi-transmissive liquid crystal display device provided with a
liquid crystal panel DP and a backlight BL, black spacers and transparent
spacers are mixed and provided in a space between two opposing
transparent substrates 4a and 4b, and let r be a radius of the spacers
and S be a dimension of a light transmissive region T in a single pixel,
then a value of .pi.r.sup.2/S is set in a range from 0.001 to 0.01. A
stable display is thus enabled by eliminating display irregularities.