Precomposed Character - Chinese Characters

Chinese Characters

In theory, most Chinese characters as encoded by Han unification and similar schemes could be treated as precomposed characters, since they can be reduced (decomposed) to their constituent strokes and ideograph descriptions, though Unicode does not take this approach that would certainly be on the cutting edge of text storage and layout. Such an approach could potentially reduce the number of characters in the character set from tens of thousands to just a few hundred. On the other hand, a character set encoded in this way would also produce documents that were tenfold larger in bytes to represent the same characters as Unicode.