Devanagari (Nagari) vs Han (Simplified variant)

Writing system comparison · ISO Deva vs ISO Hans

Devanagari (Nagari) is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian used by 61 languages. Han (Simplified variant) is a Living Left-to-right script from East Asian used by 6 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

नमस्ते दुनिया
देवनागरी
你好世界
简体中文

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Devanagari (Nagari) Han (Simplified variant)
ISO Code Deva Hans
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region South Asian East Asian
Characters
Languages 61 6
Script Type Abugida Logographic
Descended From Brahmi Han (Traditional variant)
Total Speakers ~810M ~1.1B
Introduced 1200 CE 1956 CE

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Data sourced from the ISO 15924 registry, Unicode CLDR, and the Unicode Character Database.