Cherokee vs Hebrew

Writing system comparison · ISO Cher vs ISO Hebr

Cherokee is a Living Left-to-right script from American (172 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. Hebrew is a Living Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (134 Unicode characters) used by 5 languages. A key difference is reading direction: Cherokee reads Left-to-right, while Hebrew reads Right-to-left.

ᏣᎳᎩ
ᏣᎳᎩ ᎠᏂᎩᏍᏉᏙᏗ
שלום עולם
כתב עברי

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Cherokee Hebrew
ISO Code Cher Hebr
Direction Left-to-right Right-to-left
Status Living Living
Region American Middle Eastern
Characters 172 134
Languages 1 5
Script Type Syllabary Abjad
Descended From Imperial Aramaic
Total Speakers ~10M
Introduced 1820 CE 900 BCE
Unicode Ranges
U+13A0–U+13FD
U+AB70–U+ABBF
U+0591–U+05F4
U+FB1D–U+FB4F

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.