> we currently have 88k CJK characters assigned If you also count the Unihan variations registered in Unicode's ideographic variation database by various Japan

> we currently have 88k CJK characters assigned If you also count the Unihan variations registered in Unicode's ideographic variation database by various Japanese outfits, encoded using the VS16 to VS255 characters after the codepoint they modify, there's another 8k or 9k unique characters assigned.