Especially given modern font ligatures letting you change the meanings displayed based on context (the way things like Fira code do).
Maybe don't even show the Chinese characters, just their meaning in English? It's obviously not going to be perfect, but I think there's potential there for a fun project.
You could potentially design ligatures for every word in the dictionary, but given the vastly different grammar, you wouldn’t be able to understand what a sentence said. You might be able to glean ‘this sentence involves a dog.’ Even google translate makes such poor translations, that it can really only assist in understanding. It usually doesn’t understand the subject of the sentence and confuses all the pronounced into ‘I.’
e.g. The classic example is 大麻煩 - is it 大|麻煩 (a big inconvenience), or is it 大麻|煩 (marijuana annoyance)? Is 粉絲 fan, or vermicelli? Is 早唞！ “good night!” or “go fuck yourself!”?
Bonus: 大媽 daai6 maa1/dà mā (auntie or father’s elder brother’s wife, literally ‘big mother’).