Avestan vs Han (Simplified variant)

Writing system comparison · ISO Avst vs ISO Hans

Avestan is a Liturgical Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (61 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. Han (Simplified variant) is a Living Left-to-right script from East Asian used by 6 languages. A key difference is reading direction: Avestan reads Right-to-left, while Han (Simplified variant) reads Left-to-right.

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Avestan Han (Simplified variant)
ISO Code Avst Hans
Direction Right-to-left Left-to-right
Status Liturgical Living
Region Middle Eastern East Asian
Characters 61
Languages 1 6
Script Type Alphabet Logographic
Descended From Han (Traditional variant)
Total Speakers ~1.1B
Introduced 400 CE 1956 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+10B00–U+10B3F

Only in Avestan

1 language

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

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Data sourced from the ISO 15924 registry, Unicode CLDR, and the Unicode Character Database.