Cherokee vs Han (Simplified variant)

Writing system comparison · ISO Cher vs ISO Hans

Cherokee is a Living Left-to-right script from American (172 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. Han (Simplified variant) is a Living Left-to-right script from East Asian used by 6 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

ᏣᎳᎩ
ᏣᎳᎩ ᎠᏂᎩᏍᏉᏙᏗ
你好世界
简体中文

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Cherokee Han (Simplified variant)
ISO Code Cher Hans
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region American East Asian
Characters 172
Languages 1 6
Script Type Syllabary Logographic
Descended From Han (Traditional variant)
Total Speakers ~1.1B
Introduced 1820 CE 1956 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+13A0–U+13FD
U+AB70–U+ABBF

Only in Cherokee

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.