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Although Chinese has somewhat like 20,000 symbols, being familiar with 5000 is considered sufficient for reading everyday text. It is like words in letter-based languages: You don't have to know every word of a language to read/write it. Actually, you can get quite far with 5000 words!
And, lots of Chinese symbols are composed from other elements. So 2000 keys can probably generate a lot more different symbols by overstriking one symbol on another, just like we have done with accents in Western languages for centuries.
Chinese is not a language...
Are you saying that Cyrillic keyboards don't exist, because Cyrillic isn't a language?
Keyboards are for entering characters (or symbols). If the required characters are available, the language of the text is rather inessential, from the keyboard's point of view. Using a plain A-Z keyboard you can enter text in a large number of languages.
Chinese symbols are used by a lot of languages, even outside China.
PS- Hitting Enter with an elbow, only in China.
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