> In a language with about 50,000 characters, the creation of new characters is rare The reason could be that both Unicode (used in China) and the Japanese JIS

> In a language with about 50,000 characters, the creation of new characters is rare The reason could be that both Unicode (used in China) and the Japanese JIS both represent characters as single codepoints rather than specifying them in terms of their components. If an encoding system specified Han components as their base, then new characters would be created all the time.