I CHING LEXICON wei4 R#:75 R: Strokes:1,5 Wade/Giles:wei4 Freq:38 (imit.) (borr.) not yet Giles: #12,606; do not confuse with mo4, giles #7999; sign for 8th of the celestial stems (Scorpio). Legge: we may sometimes translate by not, but the force of the yet is always to be detected... its power in common with other negtives, to attract zhi1 to itself, and make it proceed the verb which governs it, is to be noted. Wieger: #120C, a tall mu4 tree with its branches superposed; actual meaning is .. borrowed. Wilder: contrasting this character with mo4, the highest branches or twigs of a tree, it may be that in wei4 the tree had not yet attained its full growth... H1 L6 WY H1 L6 WY H2 WY H3 L5 Image H5 L1 Image H5 L6 Image H7 L4 Image H9 COTD H13 L6 Image H15 L6 Image H16 L5 Image

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