What direction does Arabic read?

Arabic reads Right-to-left (RTL).

What direction does Meroitic Hieroglyphs read?

Meroitic Hieroglyphs reads Left-to-right (LTR).

How many characters does Arabic have?

Arabic has 1,413 characters in Unicode.

How many characters does Meroitic Hieroglyphs have?

Meroitic Hieroglyphs has 32 characters in Unicode.

Arabic vs Meroitic Hieroglyphs

Writing system comparison · ISO Arab vs ISO Mero

Arabic is a Living Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (1,413 Unicode characters) used by 60 languages. Meroitic Hieroglyphs is a Living Left-to-right script (32 Unicode characters) used by 0 languages. A key difference is reading direction: Arabic reads Right-to-left, while Meroitic Hieroglyphs reads Left-to-right.

Arabic

مرحبا بالعالم

العربية

Meroitic Hieroglyphs

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute	Arabic	Meroitic Hieroglyphs
ISO Code	Arab	Mero
Direction	Right-to-left	Left-to-right
Status	Living	Living
Region	Middle Eastern	—
Characters	1,413	32
Languages	60	0
Script Type	Abjad	Logographic
Descended From	Nabataean	Egyptian hieroglyphs
Total Speakers	~291M	—
Introduced	400 CE	—
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+10980–U+1099F