晕头转向 (yūn tóu zhuàn xiàng)

Character breakdown

• 晕 (yūn) · 10 strokes

  Simplified form of 暈. Depicts thin clouds surrounding the sun (日). The thin clouds were later replaced by the phonetic component 军. The meaning later shifted to "dizzy" and "faint".

• 头 (tóu) · 5 strokes

  Phonosemantic compound. 頁 represents the meaning and 豆 represents the sound. The simplified character 头 was adapted from the cursive form of the traditional character 頭.

• 转 (zhuǎi) · 8 strokes

  Simplified form of 轉. Phonosemantic compound. 车 represents the meaning and 專 represents the sound.

• 向 (Xiàng) · 6 strokes

  Depicts a mouth (口) in a closed space (宀) making an echo sound. Based on the original meaning "echo; sound", now written as 響. The meaning later shifted to "direction" and "toward".