I CHING LEXICON bu4 R#:1 R: Strokes:3,4 Wade/Giles:pu4 Freq:330 (imit.) (indic.) no; not (before 4th tone) Montanaro: negative prefix to verbs, stative verbs and adverbs except you3 ; pronounce bu2 before a falling tone. Wieger: Lesson #133A. Primitively, a bird flying up to the sky -- "not able to get there" . Wilder: #19. H1L6, COTD, zhi de2 er2 bu4 zhi sang4 literally, "know gain but not know loss" Blofeld: "knows how to advance but not how to retreat" Wilhelm: "knows something about winning but nothing about losing." H1 Image H1 Image H1 L1 WY H1 L1 WY H1 L2 WY H1 L3 WY H1 L6 WY

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