What direction does Arabic read?

Arabic reads Right-to-left (RTL).

What direction does Hebrew read?

Hebrew reads Right-to-left (RTL).

How many characters does Arabic have?

Arabic has 1,413 characters in Unicode.

How many characters does Hebrew have?

Hebrew has 134 characters in Unicode.

Arabic vs Hebrew

Writing system comparison · ISO Arab vs ISO Hebr

Arabic is a Living Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (1,413 Unicode characters) used by 60 languages. Hebrew is a Living Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (134 Unicode characters) used by 5 languages. Both scripts read Right-to-left.

Arabic

مرحبا بالعالم

العربية

Hebrew

שלום עולם

כתב עברי

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute	Arabic	Hebrew
ISO Code	Arab	Hebr
Direction	Right-to-left	Right-to-left
Status	Living	Living
Region	Middle Eastern	Middle Eastern
Characters	1,413	134
Languages	60	5
Script Type	Abjad	Abjad
Descended From	Nabataean	Imperial Aramaic
Total Speakers	~291M	~10M
Introduced	400 CE	900 BCE
Unicode Ranges	U+0600–U+06FF U+0750–U+077F U+0870–U+089F U+08A0–U+08FF U+FB50–U+FDFF U+FE70–U+FEFC U+10E60–U+10E7E U+10EC2–U+10EFF U+1EE00–U+1EEF1	U+0591–U+05F4 U+FB1D–U+FB4F

Only in Arabic

60 languages

Algerian Arabic Arabic Bakhtiari Baluchi Beja Brahui Central Kurdish Comorian Egyptian Arabic Gilaki Hausa Kashmiri Kazakh Khowar Kyrgyz Malay Mazanderani Moroccan Arabic Najdi Arabic Northern Luri Pashto Persian Sindhi Southern Kurdish Tachelhit Tajik Torwali Tunisian Arabic Turkmen Urdu

Used by Both

0 languages

No shared languages

Only in Hebrew

5 languages

Arabic vs Hebrew

Side-by-Side Comparison

Only in Arabic

Used by Both

Only in Hebrew

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