Tibetan numerals is the numeral system of the Tibetan script and a variety of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system. It is used in the Tibetan language[1] [2] and has a base-10 counting system.[3] The Mongolian numerals were also developed from the Tibetan numerals.[4] [5]
| Arabic numeral | Tibetan numeral | Tibetan word | Romanisation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | ༠ | ཀླད་ཀོར་ | laykor | |
| 1 | ༡ | གཅིག་ | chig [t͡ɕi˥˩] | |
| 2 | ༢ | གཉིས་ | nyi [ȵiː˥˥] | |
| 3 | ༣ | གསུམ་ | sum [sum˥˥] | |
| 4 | ༤ | བཞི་ | shi [ɕi˩˧] | |
| 5 | ༥ | ལྔ་ | nga [ŋa˥˥] | |
| 6 | ༦ | དྲུག་ | trug [ʈ͡ʂʰu˩˧˨] | |
| 7 | ༧ | བདུན་ | dün [tỹ˩˧] | |
| 8 | ༨ | བརྒྱད་ | gyay [cɛː˩˧˨] | |
| 9 | ༩ | དགུ་ | gu [ku˩˧] |
| Arabic numeral | Tibetan numeral | Tibetan word | Romanisation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | ༡༠ | བཅུ་ | chu | |
| 11 | ༡༡ | བཅུ་གཅིག་ | chu ji | |
| 12 | ༡༢ | བཅུ་གཉིས་ | chu nyi | |
| 13 | ༡༣ | བཅུ་གསུམ་ | chuk sum | |
| 14 | ༡༤ | བཅུ་བཞི་ | chu shi | |
| 15 | ༡༥ | བཅུ་ལྔ་ | chü nga | |
| 16 | ༡༦ | བཅུ་དྲུག་ | chu druk | |
| 17 | ༡༧ | བཅུ་བདུན་ | chup dün | |
| 18 | ༡༨ | བཅུ་པརྒྱད | chup gyay | |
| 19 | ༡༩ | བཅུ་དགུ་ | chu gu | |
| 20 | ༢༠ | ཉི་ཤུ་ | nyi shu | |
| 30 | ༣༠ | སུམ་ཅུ | sum ju | |
| 40 | ༤༠ | བཞི་བཅུ | ship ju | |
| 50 | ༥༠ | ལྔ་བཅུ | ngap ju | |
| 60 | ༦༠ | དྲུག་ཅུ | trug chu | |
| 70 | ༧༠ | བདུན་ཅུ | dün ju | |
| 80 | ༨༠ | བརྒྱད་ཅུ | gyay ju | |
| 90 | ༩༠ | དགུ་བཅུ | gup ju | |
| 100 | ༡༠༠ | བརྒྱ་ | gya | |
| 1,000 | ༡༠༠༠ | སྟོང་ | tong | |
| 10,000 | ༡༠༠༠༠ | ཁྲི་ | thri | |
| 1,000,000 | ༡༠༠༠༠༠༠ | ས་ཡ་ | sa ya | |
| 10,000,000 | ༡༠༠༠༠༠༠༠ | བྱེ་བ་ | che wa | |
| 100,000,000 | ༡༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠ | དུང་ཕྱུར་ | dung chur | |
| 1,000,000,000 | ༡༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠ | ཐེར་འབུམ་ | ther pum | |
| 10,000,000,000 | ༡༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠ | ཐེར་འབུམ་ཆེན་པོ་ | ther pum chen po | |
| 100,000,000,000 | ༡༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠ | ཁྲག་ཁྲིག་ | thrag trig | |
| 1,000,000,000,000 | ༡༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠༠ | ཁྲག་ཁྲིག་ཆེན་པོ་ | thrag trig chen po |
| Arabic numeral | Tibetan numeral | Tibetan ordinal word | Romanisation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ༡ | དང་པོ་ | dang po [tʰaŋ˩˧.ko˥˥] | |
| 2 | ༢ | གཉིས་པ་ | nyi pa | |
| 3 | ༣ | གསུམ་པ་ | sum pa | |
| 4 | ༤ | བཞི་པ་ | shi pa | |
| 5 | ༥ | ལྔ་པ་ | nga pa | |
| 6 | ༦ | དྲུག་པ་ | trug pa | |
| 7 | ༧ | བདུན་པ་ | dün pa | |
| 8 | ༨ | བརྒྱད་པ་ | gyay pa | |
| 9 | ༩ | དགུ་པ་ | gu pa | |
| 10 | ༡༠ | བཅུ་པ་ | chu pa |
Several slashed forms of Tibetan numerals are included in Unicode to represent fractions. However, their exact meaning and authenticity are unclear.[6]