What direction does Cyrillic read?

Cyrillic reads Left-to-right (LTR).

What direction does Han (Simplified variant) read?

Han (Simplified variant) reads Left-to-right (LTR).

How many characters does Cyrillic have?

Cyrillic has 508 characters in Unicode.

How many characters does Han (Simplified variant) have?

Han (Simplified variant) has character count data not available.

Cyrillic vs Han (Simplified variant)

Writing system comparison · ISO Cyrl vs ISO Hans

Cyrillic is a Living Left-to-right script from European (508 Unicode characters) used by 61 languages. Han (Simplified variant) is a Living Left-to-right script from East Asian used by 6 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

Cyrillic

Привет мир

Кириллица

Han (Simplified variant)

你好世界

简体中文

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute	Cyrillic	Han (Simplified variant)
ISO Code	Cyrl	Hans
Direction	Left-to-right	Left-to-right
Status	Living	Living
Region	European	East Asian
Characters	508	—
Languages	61	6
Script Type	Alphabet	Logographic
Descended From	Greek	Han (Traditional variant)
Total Speakers	~285.5M	~1.1B
Introduced	940 CE	1956 CE
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