What direction does Cyrillic read?

Cyrillic reads Left-to-right (LTR).

What direction does Hatran read?

Hatran reads Right-to-left (RTL).

How many characters does Cyrillic have?

Cyrillic has 508 characters in Unicode.

How many characters does Hatran have?

Hatran has 26 characters in Unicode.

Cyrillic vs Hatran

Writing system comparison · ISO Cyrl vs ISO Hatr

Cyrillic is a Living Left-to-right script from European (508 Unicode characters) used by 61 languages. Hatran is a Historical Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (26 Unicode characters) used by 0 languages. A key difference is reading direction: Cyrillic reads Left-to-right, while Hatran reads Right-to-left.

Cyrillic

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute	Cyrillic	Hatran
ISO Code	Cyrl	Hatr
Direction	Left-to-right	Right-to-left
Status	Living	Historical
Region	European	Middle Eastern
Characters	508	26
Languages	61	0
Script Type	Alphabet	Abjad
Descended From	Greek	Imperial Aramaic
Total Speakers	~285.5M	—
Introduced	940 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	U+108E0–U+108FF