无家可归 (wú jiā kě guī)

Character breakdown

• 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…

• 家 (jiā) · 10 strokes

  Phonosemantic compound. 宀 represents the meaning and a remnant of 豭 represents the sound.

• 可 (kě) · 5 strokes

  Phonosemantic compound. 口 represents the meaning and the right component, which is a pictograph of an axe handle (now written as 柯), represents the sound. Based on the original meaning "sing", now wri…

• 归 (Guī) · 5 strokes

  Simplified form of 歸. Phonosemantic compound. 𠂤 represents the sound while 止 and 帚 represent the meaning.