What direction does Cyrillic read?

Cyrillic reads Left-to-right (LTR).

How many characters does Cyrillic have?

Cyrillic has 508 characters in Unicode.

How many characters does Yi have?

Yi has 1,220 characters in Unicode.

Cyrillic vs Yi

Writing system comparison · ISO Cyrl vs ISO Yiii

Cyrillic is a Living Left-to-right script from European (508 Unicode characters) used by 61 languages. Yi is a Living Left-to-right script from East Asian (1,220 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

Cyrillic

Привет мир

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ꆈꌠꁱꂷ

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute	Cyrillic	Yi
ISO Code	Cyrl	Yiii
Direction	Left-to-right	Left-to-right
Status	Living	Living
Region	European	East Asian
Characters	508	1,220
Languages	61	1
Script Type	Alphabet	Syllabary
Descended From	Greek	—
Total Speakers	~285.5M	—
Introduced	940 CE	2004 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+A000–U+A48C U+A490–U+A4C6