What direction does Cyrillic read?

Cyrillic reads Left-to-right (LTR).

What direction does Hebrew read?

Hebrew reads Right-to-left (RTL).

How many characters does Cyrillic have?

Cyrillic has 508 characters in Unicode.

How many characters does Hebrew have?

Hebrew has 134 characters in Unicode.

Cyrillic vs Hebrew

Writing system comparison · ISO Cyrl vs ISO Hebr

Cyrillic is a Living Left-to-right script from European (508 Unicode characters) used by 61 languages. Hebrew is a Living Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (134 Unicode characters) used by 5 languages. A key difference is reading direction: Cyrillic reads Left-to-right, while Hebrew reads Right-to-left.

Cyrillic

Привет мир

Кириллица

Hebrew

שלום עולם

כתב עברי

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute	Cyrillic	Hebrew
ISO Code	Cyrl	Hebr
Direction	Left-to-right	Right-to-left
Status	Living	Living
Region	European	Middle Eastern
Characters	508	134
Languages	61	5
Script Type	Alphabet	Abjad
Descended From	Greek	Imperial Aramaic
Total Speakers	~285.5M	~10M
Introduced	940 CE	900 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+0591–U+05F4 U+FB1D–U+FB4F