A liquid crystal display comprising: a first substrate having a major horizontal reference line and a major vertical reference line forming an angle of 90° with each other, a gate line disposed on the first substrate and extending substantially parallel to the major horizontal reference line, and a plurality of pixel unit cells disposed on the first substrate and each including a first field generating electrode and an insulatively spaced apart second field generating electrode, said insulative spacing apart being provided by an interposed insulating layer, wherein the first field generating electrode has a plurality of cutouts (92; 272) for defining different liquid crystal domains, wherein each of the cutouts (92; 272) comprises two main branch portions, a central section portion and two end section portions, each main branch portion provided between the central section portion and the respective end section portion, which are arranged symmetrically with respect to the major horizontal reference line and forming a generally chevron-shaped cutout; wherein in the upper half of each of the cutouts, the main branch portion forms a corresponding first angle (θ1) with the major vertical reference line, the central section portion forms a second angle (θ2) with the major vertical reference line, the second angle (θ2) being different from the first angle (θ1), the edge section portion forms a third angle (θ3) with the major vertical reference line, the third angle (θ3) being different from the first angle (θ1), and the first angle (θ1), the second angle (θ2) and the third angle (θ3) are non-zero, and characterized in that for each of the cutouts (92; 272), the ratio of the sum of the vertical heights of the two main branch portions to the vertical height of the cutout (92; 272) is 80% or more but less than 100%, wherein the vertical height is measured along the major vertical reference line, the ratio of the vertical height of the central section portion to the vertical height of the cutout (92, 272) is 6% to 13%; the ratio of the vertical height of the sum of the vertical heights of the two edge section portions to the vertical height of the cutout (92, 272) is 10% or less; and the plurality of pixel unit cells are provided at a density of 200 PPI (pixels per inch) or more. a first substrate having a major horizontal reference line and a major vertical reference line forming an angle of 90° with each other, a gate line disposed on the first substrate and extending substantially parallel to the major horizontal reference line, and a plurality of pixel unit cells disposed on the first substrate and each including a first field generating electrode and an insulatively spaced apart second field generating electrode, said insulative spacing apart being provided by an interposed insulating layer, wherein the first field generating electrode has a plurality of cutouts (92; 272) for defining different liquid crystal domains, wherein each of the cutouts (92; 272) comprises two main branch portions, a central section portion and two end section portions, each main branch portion provided between the central section portion and the respective end section portion, which are arranged symmetrically with respect to the major horizontal reference line and forming a generally chevron-shaped cutout; wherein in the upper half of each of the cutouts, the main branch portion forms a corresponding first angle (θ1) with the major vertical reference line, the central section portion forms a second angle (θ2) with the major vertical reference line, the second angle (θ2) being different from the first angle (θ1), the edge section portion forms a third angle (θ3) with the major vertical reference line, the third angle (θ3) being different from the first angle (θ1), and the first angle (θ1), the second angle (θ2) and the third angle (θ3) are non-zero, and characterized in that for each of the cutouts (92; 272), the ratio of the sum of the vertical heights of the two main branch portions to the vertical height of the cutout (92; 272) is 80% or more but less than 100%, wherein the vertical height is measured along the major vertical reference line, the ratio of the vertical height of the central section portion to the vertical height of the cutout (92, 272) is 6% to 13%; the ratio of the vertical height of the sum of the vertical heights of the two edge section portions to the vertical height of the cutout (92, 272) is 10% or less; and the plurality of pixel unit cells are provided at a density of 200 PPI (pixels per inch) or more.