一无所有 (yī wú suǒ yǒu)

Character breakdown

• 一 (yī) · 1 strokes

  A single horizontal stroke, representing the number one.

• 无 (mó) · 4 strokes

  Pictograph of a person dancing, with ox tails or bird feathers hanging from his arms, to pray for rain. Original form of 舞 (dance). The current form is a phonetic loan. The simplified character 无 was…

• 所 (suǒ) · 8 strokes

  Origin unclear. 戶 represents the sound.

• 有 (yǒu) · 6 strokes

  Depicts a hand (又) holding meat (肉). In Oracle script this character was written the same as the phonetically similar 又, but later the 肉 component was added to distinguish them.

Usage

除了梦想，他一无所有。

not having anything at all (idiom); utterly lacking; without two sticks to rub together

chú le mèng xiǎng ， tā yī wú suǒ yǒu 。