simplified from 飛
Image of a crane/goose in the flight

Left: movement 辶, right: 卂 (zehn 十, var. of crane (cf. 飛)
The movement of the ten cranes is rapid.

Left: word 讠/言, right: crane/goose in flight 卂/飛
Words (spread) like the flight of the cranes are information or news.

Left: water 氵, right: 卂 (cf. to fly 飞 [simplified from 飛], which shows a flying crane)
(when hunting swimming mice) This water (loves) the crane: the high water of a flood.