Persian Numbers

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Reading Numbers

Persian writes numbers with these digits.

0صِفْر
1یِک
2دو
3سه
4چَهار
5پَنْج
6شِش
7هَفْت
8هَشْت
9نُه

Look closely: ۰ is a small dot and means zero. ۵ looks like a zero, but it means five.

Numbers are written left to right, even though the words around them run right to left.

Letter Reference