Bǎ biéren de jiànjiě zhěnggè bān lái, jiàozuò chāo shuō.
Lifting other people's ideas wholesale is called 剿说.
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Read chāo, the character means to plagiarize. The classic source is the rite-book injunction 毋剿说 ('do not steal others' words'). This sense is interchangeable with the variant 抄 and is unrelated to the jiǎo 'suppress bandits' reading.
The knife radical, side form of 刀, on the right. The blade signals cutting down and destroying — the violent eradication at the heart of the jiǎo meaning.
Standalone 巢 ('nest') gives the sound and a fitting image: destroying a bandit lair is like wiping out a nest. It also feeds the chāo reading of the 'plagiarize' sense.
