The character 回 depicts an enclosure, like a room or a courtyard, suggesting a place to go back to or a returning path. The character 家 pictorially represents a roof (the 宀 part) over a pig (the 豕 part), a traditional symbol of a settled household and domestic life. Combined, 回家 visually and conceptually forms the idea of "returning to the enclosure of the household", creating an intuitive compound meaning of "to go home".