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I mean, the Chinese language has 106,230 characters [1]. This is not a new issue. And it actually sounds fun, at least they are drawings and not just various organizations of black lines

[1] https://chinainternshipplacements.com/blog/how-many-chinese-...

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Yeah that's a good point. But I think there's also more complete (all code spaces filled) latin fonts than CJK fonts for that reason.

It's off topic, but you might find it interesting. There's Japanese kanji glyphs that only exist because of (presumably) transcription errors while specifying the code pages in unicode. [0] Gives a sense of how massive that code block is!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17637375

Hanzi are compounds of a smaller subset of repeating shapes, though.

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