诸多
zhūduō · HSK 7
a lot of
📚 诸 (various) + 多 (many) = a whole bunch of many things, a good deal of
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.