届く
とどく · todoku · JLPT N3 · verb-godan
to reach
📦 todoku sounds like to dock: the parcel docks, it reaches you
届く is the everyday verb for something arriving or reaching: 荷物が届く, the package arrives. It also covers reaching with your hand, as in 手が届く. Hook: to-doku, like a ship that reaches the dock.
届 — corpse radical 尸 + 由
届 originally combined 尸 (a bent body) with a phonetic element, depicting someone arriving at a destination. Over time it came to mean 'to reach,' 'arrive at,' or 'fall due,' and is now used for sessions or terms (e.g., a graduating class) that arrive on schedule.