TSUMUGU · TOCFL 2 (est.) · 字
吵
ㄔㄠˇ · chǎo
verb — to quarrel, make noise; adj — noisy
字源 FORM — what the parts do
ITshǎo → chǎo — the sound veers off, no clean rule
A mouth (口) going at it — to quarrel, to make a racket. 少 shǎo lends the sound, here veering hard to chǎo. Voices raised over each other: 吵架、吵鬧、吵醒.
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
兩張嘴（口）你一句我一句，誰也不讓少（少）一聲——吵起來了。
Two mouths (口) trading words, neither giving an inch — and a quarrel breaks out.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)吵架、爭吵— to quarrel常用
→吵鬧、吵雜— noisy, rowdy常用
⇒吵醒— to wake someone with noise
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension