Numeral system of the Tibetan script
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 and has a base-10 counting system. The Mongolian numerals were also developed from the Tibetan numerals.
Cardinal numbers
Arabic numeral
Tibetan numeral
Tibetan word
Romanisation
0
༠
ཀླད་ཀོར་
laykor
1
༡
གཅིག་
chig
2
༢
གཉིས་
nyi
3
༣
གསུམ་
sum
4
༤
བཞི་
shi
5
༥
ལྔ་
nga
6
༦
དྲུག་
trug
7
༧
བདུན་
dün
8
༨
བརྒྱད་
gyay
9
༩
དགུ་
gu
Extended numbers
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
Ordinals
Arabic numeral
Tibetan numeral
Tibetan ordinal word
Romanisation
1
༡
དང་པོ་
dang po
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
Fractions
7½-skar postage stamp, the evidence for the ༱ symbol being used for 7.5.
Several slashed forms of Tibetan numerals are included in Unicode to represent fractions. However, their exact meaning and authenticity are unclear.
Tibetan fractions
༳
༪
༫
༬
༭
༮
༯
༰
༱
༲
Values
-0.5
0.5
1.5
2.5
3.5
4.5
5.5
6.5
7.5
8.5
See also
References
"Tibetan (བོད་སྐད)" . Omniglot. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
"Numbers in Tibetan" . Omniglot. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
Tournadre, Nicolas; Dorje, Sangda (2003). Manual of Standard Tibetan: Language and civilization . Ithaca, N.Y.: Snow Lion Publications. ISBN 1559391898 . OCLC 53477676 .
Chrisomalis, Stephen (2010). Numerical Notation: A Comparative History . Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521878180 .
"The Unicode® Standard Version 10.0 – Core Specification: South and Central Asia-II" (PDF). Unicode.org . Retrieved 3 December 2017.
^ "Numbers that Don't Add up – Tibetan Half Digits" . BabelStone . Retrieved 4 December 2022.
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