What direction does Japanese (alias for Han + Hiragana + Katakana) read?

Japanese (alias for Han + Hiragana + Katakana) reads Left-to-right (LTR).

What direction does Latin read?

Latin reads Left-to-right (LTR).

How many characters does Japanese (alias for Han + Hiragana + Katakana) have?

Japanese (alias for Han + Hiragana + Katakana) has character count data not available.

How many characters does Latin have?

Latin has 1,492 characters in Unicode.

Japanese (alias for Han + Hiragana + Katakana) vs Latin

Writing system comparison · ISO Jpan vs ISO Latn

Japanese (alias for Han + Hiragana + Katakana) is a Living Left-to-right script from East Asian used by 1 language. Latin is a Living Left-to-right script from European (1,492 Unicode characters) used by 515 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right.

Japanese (alias for Han + Hiragana + Katakana)

こんにちは世界

Latin

Hello World

Side-by-Side Comparison

Attribute	Japanese (alias for Han + Hiragana + Katakana)	Latin
ISO Code	Jpan	Latn
Direction	Left-to-right	Left-to-right
Status	Living	Living
Region	East Asian	European
Characters	—	1,492
Languages	1	515
Script Type	Mixed Script	Alphabet
Descended From	—	Old Italic (Etruscan, Oscan, etc.)
Total Speakers	~125M	~2.2B
Introduced	—	700 CE
Unicode Ranges		U+0041–U+007A U+00AA–U+00F6 U+00F8–U+01BA U+01BB–U+01C3 U+01C4–U+0293 U+0294–U+02AF U+02B0–U+02E4 U+1D00–U+1D77 U+1D79–U+1D9A U+1D9B–U+1DBE U+1E00–U+1EFF U+2071–U+209C U+212A–U+214E U+2160–U+2188 U+2C60–U+2C7F U+A722–U+A7FF U+AB30–U+AB69 U+FB00–U+FB06 U+FF21–U+FF5A U+10780–U+107BA U+1DF00–U+1DF2A

Only in Japanese (alias for Han + Hiragana + Katakana)

1 language

Japanese

Used by Both

0 languages

No shared languages

Only in Latin

515 languages

Acehnese Acoli Adangme Afar Afrikaans Aghem Akan Akoose Alabama Albanian Aleut Anii Ao Naga Aragonese Araona Arapaho Arawak Aromanian Arpitan Asturian Asu Atikamekw Atsam Aymara Azerbaijani Bafia Bafut Balinese Bambara Banjar

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