TSUMUGU · TOCFL C1 (est.) · 字
藻
藻 ＝ 艹 ＋ 喿
ㄗㄠˇ · zǎo
noun — algae, water plants
字源 FORM — what the parts do
艹義grass, a plant
喿聲zào — gives the sounda flock of birds (品) chirping in a tree (木) — noise
Tzào → zǎo — only the tone slipped
A plant (艹) that grows down in the water — algae, waterweed. 喿 zào carries the sound, only the tone slipped to zǎo, and it draws birds chattering thick in a tree, like weed massing in a pond. From the water-plant: 海藻、水藻; and the colors of patterned weed gave 詞藻, fine flourishes of writing.
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
池底的草（艹）密密一團，像滿樹鳥（喿）擠在一起——水藻。
Weed (艹) massing thick at the pond's bottom, packed like a treeful of birds (喿) — algae.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)水草、海藻— water plants, algae常用
→詞藻、辭藻— literary flourishes — the patterned, ornamental
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension