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无家可归

wú jiā kě guī

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 無家可歸

无家可归 (wú jiā kě guī) means "homeless". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 无家可归 means

1. idiomhomeless

The characters in 无家可归

• 无wúnot to have; no; none
• 家jiāused in 家伙
• 可kě(prefix) can; may; able to; -able; to approve; to permit; to suit
• 归guīto return; to go back to; to give back to

Example sentences

• 他无家可归。
  Tā wújiākěguī.
  He has no house to live in.
• 他们无家可归。
  They have no house to live in.
• 那些无家可归的人每天过着仅够糊口的生活。
  Nàxiē wújiākěguī de rén měitiān guo zhe jǐn gòu húkǒu de shēnghuó.
  Those homeless people are living hand-to-mouth.
• 当我无家可归的时候，我常在那张长椅上睡觉。
  Dāng wǒ wújiākěguī de shíhou, wǒ cháng zài nà zhāng chángyǐ shàng shuìjiào.
  I often slept on that bench when I was homeless.

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