Burmese Numerals

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Reading Numbers

Burmese writes numbers with these ten digits.

0သုည
1တစ်
2နှစ်
3သုံး
4လေး
5ငါး
6ခြောက်
7ခုနစ်
8ရှစ်
9ကိုး

Look closely: ၀ looks just like ဝ, ၁ like ◌ာ, ၄ like န, ၆ like ◌ေ, ၇ like ရ and ၈ like ဂ. In a number, they are digits. ၃, ၄ and ၇ look alike too, and so do ၅, ၆ and ၉.

Letter Reference