众多
zhòngduō · HSK 5
numerous
👥 众多 = 众 (crowd) + 多 (many) — crowd-many, i.e. numerous
众 shows three 人 (people) stacked, meaning a crowd or the masses. 多 stacks two 夕 (evenings), meaning many. Together: crowd-many = a great number of, multitudinous.
多 — two 夕 (evening) stacked
多 originally depicted two pieces of meat (夕, a variant of 肉) stacked together, suggesting abundance. Over time it was reanalyzed as two 'evenings' piled up — many evenings meaning many days, hence 'many, much'. The doubling itself conveys quantity.