What direction does Hebrew read?

Hebrew reads Right-to-left (RTL).

What direction does Katakana read?

Katakana reads Left-to-right (LTR).

How many characters does Hebrew have?

Hebrew has 134 characters in Unicode.

How many characters does Katakana have?

Katakana has 321 characters in Unicode.

Hebrew vs Katakana

Writing system comparison · ISO Hebr vs ISO Kana

Hebrew is a Living Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (134 Unicode characters) used by 5 languages. Katakana is a Living Left-to-right script from East Asian (321 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. A key difference is reading direction: Hebrew reads Right-to-left, while Katakana reads Left-to-right.

Hebrew

שלום עולם

כתב עברי

Katakana

コンニチハ

カタカナ

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute	Hebrew	Katakana
ISO Code	Hebr	Kana
Direction	Right-to-left	Left-to-right
Status	Living	Living
Region	Middle Eastern	East Asian
Characters	134	321
Languages	5	1
Script Type	Abjad	Syllabary
Descended From	Imperial Aramaic	Han (Hanzi, Kanji, Hanja)
Total Speakers	~10M	—
Introduced	900 BCE	900 CE
Unicode Ranges	U+0591–U+05F4 U+FB1D–U+FB4F	U+30A1–U+30FF U+31F0–U+31FF U+32D0–U+32FE U+3300–U+3357 U+FF66–U+FF9D U+1AFF0–U+1AFFE U+1B000–U+1B000 U+1B120–U+1B122 U+1B155–U+1B167