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Questions about the official transcription writing system that is used to write the reading of chinese characters using the roman alphabet.

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Why is it written LIU in Pinyin, when there's clearly an O sound?

Because liu is actually pronounced that way in the first tone and second tone. This applies to -ui and -un. But in the third tone you have a longer syllable where a schwa is inserted so it sounds lik …
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