遭受 (zāo shòu)
to suffer; to sustain (loss, misfortune)
Character breakdown
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遭 (zāo) · 14 strokes
Phonosemantic compound. 辶 represents the meaning and 曹 represents the sound.
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受 (shòu) · 8 strokes
Depicts a boat (舟) being passed from one hand (爫) to another hand (又). 舟 also served as phonetic, but it was later abbreviated.