受到
shòudào · HSK 2
to receive (praise, an education, punishment etc); to be ...ed (praised, educated, punished etc)
📨 受 = receive + 到 = arrive; what arrives is received (experienced)
受 means accept/receive and 到 means to reach or arrive. Together: something reaches you and you take it in — hence experience, suffer, or come in for. The 到 marks completion: the receiving actually lands.
受 — hand 爫 (top) + 冖 + hand 又 (bottom)
Originally a pictograph showing two hands passing an object (the middle 冖 represented a boat or tray) between them. It depicted the act of giving and receiving, so the character meant both 'to give' and 'to receive.' Later 授 was created with the hand radical 扌 to mean 'give,' leaving 受 to mean 'receive' or 'accept.'
到 — 刂 knife + 至 (phonetic, 'arrive')
到 is a semantic-phonetic compound. 至 ('to arrive') gives both meaning and sound, while 刂 (knife) was added later, likely as a phonetic reinforcer or to distinguish the written form. The core sense 'to arrive, reach' comes directly from 至, and 到 has carried that meaning since early script forms.