thai numerals

Thai numerals are traditionally used in Thailand, although the Western or Arabic numerals are more common. Thai>

b>phonetic	value
#x0E50;	soon	zero
#x0E51;	neung	one
#x0E52;	song	two
#x0E53;	saam	three
#x0E54;	see	four
#x0E55;	haa	five
#x0E56;	hok	six
#x0E57;	jet	seven
#x0E58;	paet	eight
#x0E59;	gao	nine

From ten to a million

These are assembled from the words for the powers of ten. The number one following a power of ten becomes et. The numbers from twenty to twenty nine begin with yee sip. Thai>

b>phonetic	value
#3626;ิบ	sip	ten
#3626;ิบเอ็ด	sip et	eleven
#3618;ี่สิบ	yee sip	twenty
#3619;้อย	roy	hundred
#3614;ัน	phan	thousand
#3627;มื่น	meun	ten thousand
#3649;สน	saen	hundred thousand
#3621;้าน	laan	million

For example, one hundred and thirty-two is neung roy sam sip song. The words roy, phan etc. should never be used without a preceding numeral, so one hundred, for example, is neung roy and not just roy. Native speakers will use roy neung (or phan neung etc.) with different tones on neung to distinguish one hundred from one hundred and one.

Above a million

Numbers above a million are constructed by prefixing laan with a multiplier. For example, ten million is sip laan, and a trillion (10¹²) is laan laan.

Thai Numerals

From ten to a million

Above a million

See also