Egyptian hieroglyphs vs Greek

Writing system comparison · ISO Egyp vs ISO Grek

Egyptian hieroglyphs is a Living Left-to-right script (5,105 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. Greek is a Living Left-to-right script from European (518 Unicode characters) used by 5 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Egyptian hieroglyphs Greek
ISO Code Egyp Grek
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region European
Characters 5,105 518
Languages 1 5
Script Type Logographic Alphabet
Descended From Phoenician
Total Speakers ~13M
Introduced 800 BCE
Unicode Ranges
U+13000–U+1342F
U+13430–U+13455
U+13460–U+143FA
U+0370–U+03FF
U+1D26–U+1D6A
U+1DBF–U+1DBF
U+1F00–U+1FFE
U+2126–U+2126
U+AB65–U+AB65
U+10140–U+1018E
U+101A0–U+101A0
U+1D200–U+1D245

Only in Egyptian hieroglyphs

1 language

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

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