Katakana vs Thai
Writing system comparison · ISO Kana vs ISO Thai
Katakana is a Living Left-to-right script from East Asian (321 Unicode characters) used by 1 language. Thai is a Living Left-to-right script from Southeast Asian (86 Unicode characters) used by 7 languages. Both scripts read Left-to-right.
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Attribute | Katakana | Thai |
|---|---|---|
| ISO Code | Kana | Thai |
| Direction | Left-to-right | Left-to-right |
| Status | Living | Living |
| Region | East Asian | Southeast Asian |
| Characters | 321 | 86 |
| Languages | 1 | 7 |
| Script Type | Syllabary | Abugida |
| Descended From | Han (Hanzi, Kanji, Hanja) | Khmer |
| Total Speakers | — | ~60M |
| Introduced | 900 CE | 1283 CE |
| Unicode Ranges |
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
|
U+0E01–U+0E5B
|
Only in Katakana
1 language
Used by Both
0 languages
No shared languages
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Data sourced from the ISO 15924 registry, Unicode CLDR, and the Unicode Character Database.