Devanagari (Nagari) vs Hiragana

Writing system comparison · ISO Deva vs ISO Hira

Devanagari (Nagari) is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian 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.

नमस्ते दुनिया
देवनागरी
こんにちは
ひらがな

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Devanagari (Nagari) Hiragana
ISO Code Deva Hira
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region South Asian East Asian
Characters 381
Languages 61 0
Script Type Abugida Syllabary
Descended From Brahmi Han (Hanzi, Kanji, Hanja)
Total Speakers ~810M
Introduced 1200 CE 900 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+3041–U+309F
U+1B001–U+1B11F
U+1B132–U+1B152
U+1F200–U+1F200

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