What direction does Cyrillic read?

Cyrillic reads Left-to-right (LTR).

What direction does Phoenician read?

Phoenician reads Right-to-left (RTL).

How many characters does Cyrillic have?

Cyrillic has 508 characters in Unicode.

How many characters does Phoenician have?

Phoenician has 29 characters in Unicode.

Cyrillic vs Phoenician

Writing system comparison · ISO Cyrl vs ISO Phnx

Cyrillic is a Living Left-to-right script from European (508 Unicode characters) used by 61 languages. Phoenician is a Historical Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (29 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. A key difference is reading direction: Cyrillic reads Left-to-right, while Phoenician reads Right-to-left.

Cyrillic

Привет мир

Кириллица

Phoenician

𐤀𐤁𐤂

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute	Cyrillic	Phoenician
ISO Code	Cyrl	Phnx
Direction	Left-to-right	Right-to-left
Status	Living	Historical
Region	European	Middle Eastern
Characters	508	29
Languages	61	1
Script Type	Alphabet	Abjad
Descended From	Greek	—
Total Speakers	~285.5M	—
Introduced	940 CE	1050 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+10900–U+1091F