Chinese symbol for “homeless”
无家可归
wú jiā kě guī
Traditional: 無家可歸
(idiom) homeless
The closest CC-CEDICT match for homeless is 无家可归 (wú jiā kě guī), defined as: (idiom) homeless.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “homeless”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 无家可归.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 无法 (無法) | wú fǎ | unable to; incapable of |
| 无论 (無論) | wú lùn | no matter what or how; regardless of whether... |
| 毫无 (毫無) | háo wú | not in the least; to completely lack |
| 无限 (無限) | wú xiàn | unlimited; unbounded; infinite |
| 无关 (無關) | wú guān | unrelated; having nothing to do (with sth else) |
| 无数 (無數) | wú shù | countless; numberless |
| 国家 (國家) | guó jiā | country; nation; state |
| 大家 | dà jiā | everyone; influential family |
| 可以 | kě yǐ | can; may |
| 回归 (回歸) | huí guī | to return to; to retreat |
See also: Japanese symbol for “homeless”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.