What direction does Cyrillic read?

Cyrillic reads Left-to-right (LTR).

What direction does Hiragana read?

Hiragana reads Left-to-right (LTR).

How many characters does Cyrillic have?

Cyrillic has 508 characters in Unicode.

How many characters does Hiragana have?

Hiragana has 381 characters in Unicode.

Cyrillic vs Hiragana

Writing system comparison · ISO Cyrl vs ISO Hira

Cyrillic is a Living Left-to-right script from European (508 Unicode characters) used by 61 languages. Hiragana is a Living Left-to-right script from East Asian (381 Unicode characters) used by 0 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

Cyrillic

Привет мир

Кириллица

Hiragana

こんにちは

ひらがな

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute	Cyrillic	Hiragana
ISO Code	Cyrl	Hira
Direction	Left-to-right	Left-to-right
Status	Living	Living
Region	European	East Asian
Characters	508	381
Languages	61	0
Script Type	Alphabet	Syllabary
Descended From	Greek	Han (Hanzi, Kanji, Hanja)
Total Speakers	~285.5M	—
Introduced	940 CE	900 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+3041–U+309F U+1B001–U+1B11F U+1B132–U+1B152 U+1F200–U+1F200