嘈

cáo
#3,440 most
frequent character
bustling, tumultuous, noisy

Character breakdown

Source: Make Me a Hanzi.

嘈 has 口 mouth as the meaning part and 曹 cáo, an exact match, for the sound. It first meant making a lot of noise, and from there grew 'noisy, tumultuous' and 'confusion'.

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Homophones

槽cáo
trough, groove
曹cáo
class or grade, generation

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