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Kanji for Noisy
The kanji most commonly used for "Noisy" are 騒、喧、嘩.
騒
Kanji that mean Noisy
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騒
to make noise
Also associated with sorrow, poetry.
Onyomi: soh Kunyomi: sawa.gu, sawaga.shii, urei 18 strokes Jōyō
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喧
noisy
Also associated with prosperous, annoying.
Onyomi: ken Kunyomi: kamabisu.shii, yakama.shii 12 strokes Jinmeiyō
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嘩
noisy
Also associated with annoying, boisterous.
Onyomi: ka, ke Kunyomi: kamabisu.shii 13 strokes Jinmeiyō
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騷
disturb, noisy
Also associated with poetry.
Onyomi: soh Kunyomi: sawa.gu, sawaga.shii, urei 20 strokes Jinmeiyō
騒 (traditional form 騷) is the character for noise in ordinary Japanese. It gives 騒音 (noise, usually the unwanted kind), 騒動 (an uproar, a commotion) and the verb 騒ぐ, to make a racket. If you want one character meaning noisy, this is the one.
喧 and 嘩 are the two halves of 喧嘩, kenka — a word that in modern Japanese means a quarrel or a fistfight rather than mere loudness. Both share the kun reading kamabisushii, clamorous, and neither is used on its own in current writing. 喧 survives mainly in 喧騒, the din of a crowd or a city street.
So the real split is between sound and conflict. 騒 describes a level of noise and can be neutral: a crowd, a street, a restless child. 喧 and 嘩 describe people shouting at each other, and they carry that argumentative sense with them even when they appear alone.
Before you use Noisy kanji
None of these is flattering. 騒 reads as noise or commotion, and 物騒 even means dangerous or unsettling. 喧 and 嘩 are read together as 喧嘩, a fight, so either alone suggests brawling rather than liveliness. If you want lively rather than loud, 賑 is the character.