Qìyàn xiāozhāng de guānyuán zuìzhōng shòudào le fǎlǜ de zhìcái.
The arrogant official was eventually punished by law.
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嚣 is a classical/literary character rarely used alone in modern Chinese. It appears in set phrases: 喧嚣 (clamor/hubbub), 嚣张 (arrogant/rampant), 尘嚣 (worldly clamor).
Top-left 口 - the first of four mouths in this char. Multiple mouths together evoke a babble of voices, the literal scene of clamour. This corner mouth pairs with the top-right 口 to flank the 页 head in the middle.
Top-right 口 mirrors the top-left mouth, completing the upper pair. Two mouths shouting on either side of the head below paint a chaotic, surrounded-by-noise picture - the core image of 嚣's clamour and din.
页 in the middle is the original head pictograph. Surrounded above and below by four shouting mouths, it gives the literal target - a head besieged by noise from every side. This positioning is what stretches the meaning to arrogance and presumption.
Bottom-left 口 - third mouth, mirroring the top arrangement below the head. Together with its bottom-right twin, it completes the four-corner siege of voices around 页, the visual signature that gives 嚣 its overwhelming-noise meaning.
Bottom-right 口 closes the four-mouth circle around the head. The full set of four 口 chars is also the underlying structure of 嚣's traditional form 囂 - which is even more elaborate, with four 口 plus the head.
