diff --git a/default/fontconfig/conf.avail/50-omarchy.conf b/default/fontconfig/conf.avail/50-omarchy.conf
index eecf66e0..11a37324 100644
--- a/default/fontconfig/conf.avail/50-omarchy.conf
+++ b/default/fontconfig/conf.avail/50-omarchy.conf
@@ -1,6 +1,313 @@
 <?xml version="1.0"?>
 <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
 <fontconfig>
+  <!-- CJK: give language-tagged text the Noto CJK variant that matches its
+       language. noto-fonts-cjk ships all five, Han glyph shapes differ between
+       them, and the generic assigns below would otherwise hand tagged CJK text
+       to families with no Han coverage, leaving the variant to a charset-scan
+       lottery. Chinese arrives under many tags (W3C recommends the zh-Hans and
+       zh-Hant script forms), so the tags are first folded onto one tag per
+       variant. Order is load-bearing: a bare zh and a bare zh-hant satisfy
+       the contains test of every one of their extensions, so both are pinned
+       by exact matches before the extension folds run. Cantonese under its
+       own primary tag folds to Hong Kong forms, except explicitly
+       Simplified Cantonese, which folds to SC. -->
+
+  <match target="pattern">
+    <test name="lang" compare="eq">
+      <string>zh</string>
+    </test>
+    <edit name="lang" mode="assign">
+      <string>zh-cn</string>
+    </edit>
+  </match>
+
+  <match target="pattern">
+    <test name="lang" compare="eq">
+      <string>zh-hant</string>
+    </test>
+    <edit name="lang" mode="assign">
+      <string>zh-tw</string>
+    </edit>
+  </match>
+
+  <match target="pattern">
+    <test name="lang" compare="contains">
+      <string>zh-hant-hk</string>
+    </test>
+    <edit name="lang" mode="assign">
+      <string>zh-hk</string>
+    </edit>
+  </match>
+
+  <match target="pattern">
+    <test name="lang" compare="contains">
+      <string>zh-hant-mo</string>
+    </test>
+    <edit name="lang" mode="assign">
+      <string>zh-hk</string>
+    </edit>
+  </match>
+
+  <match target="pattern">
+    <test name="lang" compare="contains">
+      <string>zh-hant</string>
+    </test>
+    <edit name="lang" mode="assign">
+      <string>zh-tw</string>
+    </edit>
+  </match>
+
+  <match target="pattern">
+    <test name="lang" compare="contains">
+      <string>zh-hans</string>
+    </test>
+    <edit name="lang" mode="assign">
+      <string>zh-cn</string>
+    </edit>
+  </match>
+
+  <match target="pattern">
+    <test name="lang" compare="contains">
+      <string>zh-sg</string>
+    </test>
+    <edit name="lang" mode="assign">
+      <string>zh-cn</string>
+    </edit>
+  </match>
+
+  <match target="pattern">
+    <test name="lang" compare="contains">
+      <string>zh-mo</string>
+    </test>
+    <edit name="lang" mode="assign">
+      <string>zh-hk</string>
+    </edit>
+  </match>
+
+  <match target="pattern">
+    <test name="lang" compare="eq">
+      <string>yue</string>
+    </test>
+    <edit name="lang" mode="assign">
+      <string>zh-hk</string>
+    </edit>
+  </match>
+
+  <match target="pattern">
+    <test name="lang" compare="contains">
+      <string>yue-hans</string>
+    </test>
+    <edit name="lang" mode="assign">
+      <string>zh-cn</string>
+    </edit>
+  </match>
+
+  <match target="pattern">
+    <test name="lang" compare="contains">
+      <string>yue-cn</string>
+    </test>
+    <edit name="lang" mode="assign">
+      <string>zh-cn</string>
+    </edit>
+  </match>
+
+  <match target="pattern">
+    <test name="lang" compare="contains">
+      <string>yue</string>
+    </test>
+    <edit name="lang" mode="assign">
+      <string>zh-hk</string>
+    </edit>
+  </match>
+
+
+  <!-- Each variant is then prepended for its tag, ahead of the assigns below
+       because these test the generic names those assigns replace. Unlike the
+       Arabic rule further down, these carry a family test, so the prepend
+       lands just ahead of the matched generic and a concrete family the app
+       asked for stays in front of the variant. -->
+
+  <match target="pattern">
+    <test name="lang" compare="contains">
+      <string>zh-cn</string>
+    </test>
+    <test name="family">
+      <string>sans-serif</string>
+    </test>
+    <edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="strong">
+      <string>Noto Sans CJK SC</string>
+    </edit>
+  </match>
+
+  <match target="pattern">
+    <test name="lang" compare="contains">
+      <string>zh-cn</string>
+    </test>
+    <test name="family">
+      <string>serif</string>
+    </test>
+    <edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="strong">
+      <string>Noto Serif CJK SC</string>
+    </edit>
+  </match>
+
+  <match target="pattern">
+    <test name="lang" compare="contains">
+      <string>zh-cn</string>
+    </test>
+    <test name="family">
+      <string>monospace</string>
+    </test>
+    <edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="strong">
+      <string>Noto Sans Mono CJK SC</string>
+    </edit>
+  </match>
+
+  <match target="pattern">
+    <test name="lang" compare="contains">
+      <string>zh-hk</string>
+    </test>
+    <test name="family">
+      <string>sans-serif</string>
+    </test>
+    <edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="strong">
+      <string>Noto Sans CJK HK</string>
+    </edit>
+  </match>
+
+  <match target="pattern">
+    <test name="lang" compare="contains">
+      <string>zh-hk</string>
+    </test>
+    <test name="family">
+      <string>serif</string>
+    </test>
+    <edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="strong">
+      <string>Noto Serif CJK HK</string>
+    </edit>
+  </match>
+
+  <match target="pattern">
+    <test name="lang" compare="contains">
+      <string>zh-hk</string>
+    </test>
+    <test name="family">
+      <string>monospace</string>
+    </test>
+    <edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="strong">
+      <string>Noto Sans Mono CJK HK</string>
+    </edit>
+  </match>
+
+  <match target="pattern">
+    <test name="lang" compare="contains">
+      <string>zh-tw</string>
+    </test>
+    <test name="family">
+      <string>sans-serif</string>
+    </test>
+    <edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="strong">
+      <string>Noto Sans CJK TC</string>
+    </edit>
+  </match>
+
+  <match target="pattern">
+    <test name="lang" compare="contains">
+      <string>zh-tw</string>
+    </test>
+    <test name="family">
+      <string>serif</string>
+    </test>
+    <edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="strong">
+      <string>Noto Serif CJK TC</string>
+    </edit>
+  </match>
+
+  <match target="pattern">
+    <test name="lang" compare="contains">
+      <string>zh-tw</string>
+    </test>
+    <test name="family">
+      <string>monospace</string>
+    </test>
+    <edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="strong">
+      <string>Noto Sans Mono CJK TC</string>
+    </edit>
+  </match>
+
+  <match target="pattern">
+    <test name="lang" compare="contains">
+      <string>ja</string>
+    </test>
+    <test name="family">
+      <string>sans-serif</string>
+    </test>
+    <edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="strong">
+      <string>Noto Sans CJK JP</string>
+    </edit>
+  </match>
+
+  <match target="pattern">
+    <test name="lang" compare="contains">
+      <string>ja</string>
+    </test>
+    <test name="family">
+      <string>serif</string>
+    </test>
+    <edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="strong">
+      <string>Noto Serif CJK JP</string>
+    </edit>
+  </match>
+
+  <match target="pattern">
+    <test name="lang" compare="contains">
+      <string>ja</string>
+    </test>
+    <test name="family">
+      <string>monospace</string>
+    </test>
+    <edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="strong">
+      <string>Noto Sans Mono CJK JP</string>
+    </edit>
+  </match>
+
+  <match target="pattern">
+    <test name="lang" compare="contains">
+      <string>ko</string>
+    </test>
+    <test name="family">
+      <string>sans-serif</string>
+    </test>
+    <edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="strong">
+      <string>Noto Sans CJK KR</string>
+    </edit>
+  </match>
+
+  <match target="pattern">
+    <test name="lang" compare="contains">
+      <string>ko</string>
+    </test>
+    <test name="family">
+      <string>serif</string>
+    </test>
+    <edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="strong">
+      <string>Noto Serif CJK KR</string>
+    </edit>
+  </match>
+
+  <match target="pattern">
+    <test name="lang" compare="contains">
+      <string>ko</string>
+    </test>
+    <test name="family">
+      <string>monospace</string>
+    </test>
+    <edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="strong">
+      <string>Noto Sans Mono CJK KR</string>
+    </edit>
+  </match>
+
   <match target="pattern">
     <test name="family" qual="any">
       <string>sans-serif</string>