Hebrew vs Phags-pa

Writing system comparison · ISO Hebr vs ISO Phag

Hebrew is a Living Right-to-left script from Middle Eastern (134 Unicode characters) used by 5 languages. Phags-pa is a Living Top-to-bottom script from Central Asian (56 Unicode characters) used by 0 languages. A key difference is reading direction: Hebrew reads Right-to-left, while Phags-pa reads Top-to-bottom.

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute Hebrew Phags-pa
ISO Code Hebr Phag
Direction Right-to-left Top-to-bottom
Status Living Living
Region Middle Eastern Central Asian
Characters 134 56
Languages 5 0
Script Type Abjad Abugida
Descended From Imperial Aramaic Tibetan
Total Speakers ~10M
Introduced 900 BCE
Unicode Ranges
U+0591–U+05F4
U+FB1D–U+FB4F
U+A840–U+A877

Used by Both

0 languages
No shared languages

Only in Phags-pa

0 languages
None unique

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