What direction does Cyrillic read?

Cyrillic reads Left-to-right (LTR).

What direction does Katakana read?

Katakana reads Left-to-right (LTR).

How many characters does Cyrillic have?

Cyrillic has 508 characters in Unicode.

How many characters does Katakana have?

Katakana has 321 characters in Unicode.

Cyrillic vs Katakana

Writing system comparison · ISO Cyrl vs ISO Kana

Cyrillic is a Living Left-to-right script from European (508 Unicode characters) used by 61 languages. Katakana is a Living Left-to-right script from East Asian (321 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

Cyrillic

Привет мир

Кириллица

Katakana

コンニチハ

カタカナ

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute	Cyrillic	Katakana
ISO Code	Cyrl	Kana
Direction	Left-to-right	Left-to-right
Status	Living	Living
Region	European	East Asian
Characters	508	321
Languages	61	1
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+30A1–U+30FF U+31F0–U+31FF U+32D0–U+32FE U+3300–U+3357 U+FF66–U+FF9D U+1AFF0–U+1AFFE U+1B000–U+1B000 U+1B120–U+1B122 U+1B155–U+1B167