Hebrew vs Kawi

Writing system comparison · ISO Hebr vs ISO Kawi

Hebrew is a Living Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (134 Unicode characters) used by 5 languages. Kawi is a Living Left-to-right script (87 Unicode characters) used by 0 languages. A key difference is reading direction: Hebrew reads Right-to-left, while Kawi reads Left-to-right.

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Attribute Hebrew Kawi
ISO Code Hebr Kawi
Direction Right-to-left Left-to-right
Status Living Living
Region Middle Eastern
Characters 134 87
Languages 5 0
Script Type Abjad Abugida
Descended From Imperial Aramaic Brahmi
Total Speakers ~10M
Introduced 900 BCE
Unicode Ranges
U+0591–U+05F4
U+FB1D–U+FB4F
U+11F00–U+11F5A

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

Only in Kawi

0 languages
None unique

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