What direction does Hebrew read?

Hebrew reads Right-to-left (RTL).

What direction does Imperial Aramaic read?

Imperial Aramaic reads Right-to-left (RTL).

How many characters does Hebrew have?

Hebrew has 134 characters in Unicode.

How many characters does Imperial Aramaic have?

Imperial Aramaic has 31 characters in Unicode.

Hebrew vs Imperial Aramaic

Writing system comparison · ISO Hebr vs ISO Armi

Hebrew is a Living Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (134 Unicode characters) used by 5 languages. Imperial Aramaic is a Historical Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (31 Unicode characters) used by 0 languages. Both scripts read Right-to-left.

Hebrew

שלום עולם

כתב עברי

Imperial Aramaic

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute	Hebrew	Imperial Aramaic
ISO Code	Hebr	Armi
Direction	Right-to-left	Right-to-left
Status	Living	Historical
Region	Middle Eastern	Middle Eastern
Characters	134	31
Languages	5	0
Script Type	Abjad	Abjad
Descended From	Imperial Aramaic	Phoenician
Total Speakers	~10M	—
Introduced	900 BCE	800 BCE
Unicode Ranges	U+0591–U+05F4 U+FB1D–U+FB4F	U+10840–U+1085F

Only in Hebrew

5 languages

Hebrew Judeo-Arabic Judeo-Persian Ladino Yiddish

Used by Both

0 languages

No shared languages

Only in Imperial Aramaic