多
duō · HSK 1
many
🌙🌙 多 = two 夕 (evening) stacked: many evenings piled up
Etymology: 多 is 夕 (evening/moon) doubled. Repeated evenings accumulate, giving the sense of many, much, more than enough. Mandarin duō rhymes with the English door — many people through the door.
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.