TSUMUGU · TOCFL 2 (est.) · 字
盜
盜 ＝ 皿 ＋ 㳄
ㄉㄠˋ · dào
verb/noun — to steal, rob; a thief
字源 FORM — what the parts do
皿義a vessel, the goods in a dish
㳄義drool — mouth (欠) with water, mouth watering
The old graph carries two tellings. One reads it as drool: 㳄 — a watering mouth — leaning over a vessel (皿) of food, wanting what isn't his. The other splits it 皿 + 次聲, 次 lending the sound cì, voiced to dào. Both land on the same crime: to take, by mouth or by hand, what belongs to another — 盜竊、強盜、盜賊.
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
一盤（皿）食物，旁邊一張嘴流著口水（㳄）盯著——要偷。
A dish (皿) of food, and a drooling mouth (㳄) fixed on it — about to take what isn't his.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)盜竊、偷盜— to steal, rob常用
→強盜、盜賊— a robber, thief常用
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension