騒
This character means ‘make a noise, make a fuss,’ and is pronounced SŌ and sawagu in Japanese, sāo in Chinese. I could find no information about its derivation. It’s parts, though, provided a simple story by which it could be remembered.
The left-hand element
馬
means ‘horse.' See the four legs and the tail and the streaming mane? The upper right-hand element
又
means ‘and, again, also, in addition,’ and the lower right-hand element
虫
means ‘insect.’
A horse is repeatedly bothered by insects and makes a fuss, makes a lot of noise.
Interestingly, these two characters together
騒人
mean ‘poet’ (sōjin), at least in Japanese. (The second character means 'man, person.') Apparently, poets are those who make noise and make a fuss. Or, at least, they used to be.
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