an angle u201c u03b8 u201d from that of the upper polarizer 540 the transmissive axis of the lower polarizer 410 is disposed at the angle u201c 2 u03b8 u201d from that of the upper polarizer 540 the orientation direction of the liquid crystal which determines the arrangement of the liquid crystal molecules is 45 u00b0 from the transmissive axis of the lower polarizer 410 fig9 b shows a positional relationship of the axes of the lcd device elements in the reflective mode as shown the transmissive axis of the lower polarizer 410 is not depicted due to the fact that the lower polarizer 410 does not affect the state of the light in the reflective mode the transmissive axis of the upper polarizer 540 is parallel with the y axis and the slow axis of the hwp 530 is disposed at the angle u201c u03b8 u201d from that of the upper polarizer 540 thus the orientation direction of the liquid crystal is u201c 45 u00b0 u03b8 u201d from the slow axis of the hwp 530 as aforementioned and referring to fig9 a and 9b the transmissive axis of the upper polarizer 540 is not perpendicular to that of the lower polarizer 410 namely the angle u201c 2 u03b8 u201d represents the angle between the transmissive axis of the upper polarizer and that of the lower polarizer fig1 a to 13 b are graphs illustrating a light transmittance of the transflective lcd device with respect to wavelengths of the light when applying the voltage to liquid crystal.