What direction does Cyrillic read?

Cyrillic reads Left-to-right (LTR).

What direction does Greek read?

Greek reads Left-to-right (LTR).

How many characters does Cyrillic have?

Cyrillic has 508 characters in Unicode.

How many characters does Greek have?

Greek has 518 characters in Unicode.

Cyrillic vs Greek

Writing system comparison · ISO Cyrl vs ISO Grek

Cyrillic is a Living Left-to-right script from European (508 Unicode characters) used by 61 languages. Greek is a Living Left-to-right script from European (518 Unicode characters) used by 5 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

Cyrillic

Привет мир

Кириллица

Greek

Γεια σου κόσμε

Ελληνικό αλφάβητο

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute	Cyrillic	Greek
ISO Code	Cyrl	Grek
Direction	Left-to-right	Left-to-right
Status	Living	Living
Region	European	European
Characters	508	518
Languages	61	5
Script Type	Alphabet	Alphabet
Descended From	Greek	Phoenician
Total Speakers	~285.5M	~13M
Introduced	940 CE	800 BCE
Unicode Ranges	U+0400–U+0489 U+048A–U+052F U+1C80–U+1C8A U+1D2B–U+1D78 U+2DE0–U+2DFF U+A640–U+A69F U+FE2E–U+FE2F U+1E030–U+1E08F	U+0370–U+03FF U+1D26–U+1D6A U+1DBF–U+1DBF U+1F00–U+1FFE U+2126–U+2126 U+AB65–U+AB65 U+10140–U+1018E U+101A0–U+101A0 U+1D200–U+1D245