TSUMUGU · TOCFL B2 (est.) · 字
騷
騷 ＝ 馬 ＋ 蚤
ㄙㄠ · sāo
verb — to disturb, agitate; adj — restless; literary — refined, poetic
字源 FORM — what the parts do
蚤聲zǎo — gives the sound; a flea
{z,c,s}ITzǎo → sāo — the sibilant initial reshapes; tone shifts too
A horse (馬) with 蚤 zǎo, a flea, giving the sound. A horse fly-bitten and twitching, never still: to disturb, to throw into unrest (騷動、騷擾). Borrowed for the poet's restless spirit, it also means the refined and literary (風騷).
故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by
跳蚤（蚤）一咬，馬（馬）渾身發癢，甩頭蹬腿，怎麼都安靜不下來。
A flea (蚤) bites, and the horse (馬) breaks into an itching fit — tossing, stamping, never settling.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)騷動、騷擾— to disturb, agitate, throw into unrest常用
→騷亂、牢騷— restless; a grievance, a grumble
→風騷、騷人— refined, poetic; a man of letters
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension
關 · Related
蚤zǎothe sound donor — 蚤 is the bare flea, 騷 sets a horse beside it搔sāothe same sound — a hand 扌 scratching the itch the flea makes