diff --git a/rich/cells.py b/rich/cells.py
index 64bf468cb..52245df32 100644
--- a/rich/cells.py
+++ b/rich/cells.py
@@ -15,23 +15,14 @@
     (0x02800, 0x028FF),  # Braille
 ]
 
-
-def _make_single_cell_set() -> frozenset[str]:
-    """Combine ranges of ordinals in to a frozen set of strings.
-
-    Returns:
-        A frozenset of single cell characters.
-
-    """
-    character_range_lists = [
-        list(map(chr, range(_start, _end + 1)))
+# A set of characters that are a single cell wide
+_SINGLE_CELLS = frozenset(
+    [
+        character
         for _start, _end in _SINGLE_CELL_UNICODE_RANGES
+        for character in map(chr, range(_start, _end + 1))
     ]
-    return frozenset(sum(character_range_lists, start=[]))
-
-
-# A set of characters that are a single cell wide
-_SINGLE_CELLS = _make_single_cell_set()
+)
 
 # When called with a string this will return True if all
 # characters are single-cell, otherwise False