A cosemisimple Hopf algebra is usually defined to a Hopf algebra which is the sum of its cosimple subcoalgebras. Does this definition assume that each cosimple subcoalgebra appears only once in the sum, or is this a consequence?
Also, assuming this is true, then the decomposition must be unique by a cosimplicity argument, i.e. given two decompositions $H = \bigoplus_i H_i = \bigoplus H'_i$, with each $H_i$ and $H'_i$ cosemisimple, then for each $i$ there exists a $j$ such that $H_i = H'_j$.