Example sentences

zhèrénzhēnduō

There are so many people here.

duō

How old are you?

The story behind the character

Two 夕 stacked up. Here 夕 isn't evening. It's an old form of 肉 (meat). Two pieces of meat, that's 多. Xu Shen wrote 多, 重也. The ancients measured "a lot" in slabs of meat.

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