You Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Walk (chuò) Kangxi Strokes: 14 Page 1257, Entry 08 Pronounced bu Shuowen Jiezi (Explanation of Simple and Compound Characters): To flee or abscond. Book of Documents (Shujing), Great Announcement (Da Gao): To attack the fleeing and scattered ministers of the Shang dynasty. Note: Ministers who have fled and are in exile. Book of Changes (Yijing), Litigation Hexagram (Song Gua): To return and flee from the three hundred households of his own town. Commentary: One cannot succeed in litigation, so one returns and flees. Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan), Sixth Year of Duke Wen: Zhao Xuanzi held the administration and oversaw those who had fled as fugitives. Note: To oversee those who have committed crimes and fled. Also, Guangyun (Broad Rhymes): To owe or fall into arrears. Zheng Yun (Correct Rhymes): To be in debt. Any instance of owing property or wealth to the government, or fleeing and hiding without returning what is owed, is called bu. Book of Han (Hanshu), Annals of Emperor Zhao: Taxes in arrears from three years prior or earlier that have not been paid shall not be collected. Book of Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals of Guangwu: To appeal for the taxes in arrears belonging to the household of the Marquis of Chongling. Also, Biography of Duan Jiong: To clear away a hundred years of arrears.