不
JLPT HSK 1

bù

Four strokes are not enough.

	杯
JLPT HSK 1

bēi
Left: tree 木, right: not 不 (Four strokes are not enough!)
A tree is not yet a cup/glass.

	还
JLPT HSK 2

hái, huán
Left: movement 辶, right: not 不 (Four strokes are not enough!)
(Laziness at work) Not moving? - I am still in progress!

	环
JLPT HSK 3

huán
Left: king 王, right: not 不 (Four strokes are not enough!)
A king is not limiting himself with only one ring.

	坏
JLPT HSK 3

huài
Left: earth/ground 土, right: not 不 (Four strokes are not enough!)
If sth. is on the ground, where it should not be, it is: bad and/or broken.

	怀
JLPT HSK 4

huái
Left: feeling 忄, right: negation 不 (Four strokes are not enough!)
Feelings are not only in the bosom.

	否
JLPT HSK 4

fǒu, pǐ
Top: not 不 (Four strokes are not enough!), below: mouth 口
A "not" out of a mouth is: a negation.

	歪
JLPT HSK 5

wāi
Top: not 不 (Four strokes are not enough!), below: correct, right 正 (To stop 止 at the line 一 is correct.)
If sth. is not correct, it is crooked.

	甭
JLPT HSK 6

béng
Top: not 不 (Four strokes are not enough!), bottom: use, need 用 (A fence is needed.)
"Not needed" means: Not necessary!

	丕
JLPT no HSK

pī
Top and bottom: two 二, middle: small 小 (cf. negation 不)
Between two boundaries something small can be: great.

	呸
JLPT no HSK

pēi
Left: mouth 口, right: great 丕 (Here: not 不 and floor __)
Out of the mouth it should not 不 on the ground __, when: spitting out!