Bear plus snowflake equals polar bear
This reminds me of a blog post that I can no longer remember that discusses how Chinese is a lot of arranging several related kanji into a single character to express a new idea (please link it if you can find it).<p>I would love to see unicode characters to allow for arbitrary combinations beyond those defined using just ZWJ to allow more flexibility (e.g. blizzard could be created by adding like "slowflake x 5" which creates a single character with five snowflakes, without having to create an entirely new character representing blizzard from snowflake + ZWJ + snowflake).<p>As an aside, my favorite ZWJ magic is black flag + ZWJ + skull and crossbones = pirate flag.<p>Also see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blissymbols" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blissymbols</a> for more symbol language fun.