Greek vs Han (Simplified variant)

Writing system comparison · ISO Grek vs ISO Hans

Greek is a Living Left-to-right script from European (518 Unicode characters) used by 5 languages. Han (Simplified variant) is a Living Left-to-right script from East Asian used by 6 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

Γεια σου κόσμε
Ελληνικό αλφάβητο
你好世界
简体中文

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Greek Han (Simplified variant)
ISO Code Grek Hans
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region European East Asian
Characters 518
Languages 5 6
Script Type Alphabet Logographic
Descended From Phoenician Han (Traditional variant)
Total Speakers ~13M ~1.1B
Introduced 800 BCE 1956 CE
Unicode Ranges
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

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.