A liquid-crystal display includes a reflective liquid-crystal panel, a
light guiding plate disposed on the reflective liquid-crystal panel, a
polarizer arranged between a liquid-crystal layer of the reflective
liquid-crystal panel and the light guiding plate, and a light source
disposed on a side surface of the light guiding plate. Light emitted from
the light source propagates through the light guiding plate and has a
primary direction. A smaller one of two angles between a projection of the
primary direction onto the reflective liquid-crystal panel and an
absorption axis of the light guiding plate is at least 50.degree.. This
resultantly improves performance of the liquid-crystal display.
