料到
liào dào · HSK 7
to foresee
🔮 料 (reckon, predict) + 到 (reach) = your guess reaches the outcome before it arrives
料 carries the sense of reckoning or estimating; 到 marks reaching or arriving at a point. Together they mean an estimate that lands on what actually happens, hence to foresee or anticipate.
料 — rice 米 + dipper 斗
料 combines 米 (rice/grain) with 斗 (a measuring dipper), depicting the act of measuring out grain. From this concrete sense it extended to 'to measure, estimate, anticipate' and to 'materials' (things measured out for use), as in 材料 'materials' and 预料 'to anticipate'.
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.