adverb / temporal noun:

• how many; how much

noun:

• many; many kinds

noun:

• itinerant monk being on pilgrimages to many lands - four character idiom

noun:

• many priests - Buddhism term
• (Heian era) monk-soldiers

expression:

• people will believe something false if many agree that it is true (an example of argumentum ad populum); there's a tiger in the market [literal] - proverb

noun:

• many accomplished persons - obscure term

noun:

• game with many hits

noun:

• many treasures

noun:

• (mouths of) many people

noun:

• many islands - archaism

noun / adverb:

• many months and years - archaism

expression:

• although there are many of them

expression:

• financially ruining oneself by buying too many clothes (as a fabled tendency of the people of Kyoto) ➜ 大阪の食い倒れ・着倒れ

noun:

• many lands; many means

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun / ~たる adjective / ~と adverb:

• many flowers blooming in profusion; a gathering of many beautiful women (talented people); simultaneous emergence of many talents and achievements - four character idiom

noun:

• saying something many times

noun:

• many sins; long-standing evils

~の noun / adverb / noun:

• many; a lot; much; multitude

noun:

• too many options making selection difficult; truth being hard to find as paths to it proliferate - four character idiom

noun:

• dragon-like cryptid fish with many whiskers and no bones (likely a sturgeon) ➜ 蝶鮫

expression:

• So many people, so many minds; Everyone has his own ideas and tastes; It takes all sorts to make a world; To each his (her) own - four character idiom

noun / ~する noun:

• bowing many times (in apology)

noun:

• how many? (large animals)

noun:

• many mountains and rivers; a great distance to travel - four character idiom

expression:

• so many men, so many ways; to each one's own; it takes all sorts to make a world - four character idiom