Han (Simplified variant) vs Kannada

Writing system comparison · ISO Hans vs ISO Knda

Han (Simplified variant) is a Living Left-to-right script from East Asian used by 6 languages. Kannada is a Living Left-to-right script from South Asian (92 Unicode characters) used by 2 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

你好世界
简体中文
ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ
ಕನ್ನಡ ಲಿಪಿ

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Han (Simplified variant) Kannada
ISO Code Hans Knda
Direction Left-to-right Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region East Asian South Asian
Characters 92
Languages 6 2
Script Type Logographic Abugida
Descended From Han (Traditional variant) Brahmi
Total Speakers ~1.1B ~44M
Introduced 1956 CE 1500 CE
Unicode Ranges
U+0C80–U+0CF3

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

Only in Kannada

2 languages

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