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Thai numerals

<p><b>Thai numerals</b> (<a href="/en/Thai_language" title="Thai language" class="wl">Thai</a><span>: </span><span>เลขไทย</span>, <small about="#mwt19" typeof="mw:Transclusion" data-mw="{&quot;parts&quot;:[{&quot;template&quot;:{&quot;target&quot;:{&quot;wt&quot;:&quot;RTGS&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;./Template:RTGS&quot;},&quot;params&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:{&quot;wt&quot;:&quot;''lek thai''&quot;}},&quot;i&quot;:0}}]}"><a href="/en/Royal_Thai_General_System_of_Transcription" title="Royal Thai General System of Transcription" class="wl">RTGS</a>:<span>&nbsp;</span></small><span><span style="font-style: inherit"><i>lek thai</i></span></span>, <small about="#mwt20" typeof="mw:Transclusion" data-mw="{&quot;parts&quot;:[{&quot;template&quot;:{&quot;target&quot;:{&quot;wt&quot;:&quot;IPA-th&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;./Template:IPA-th&quot;},&quot;params&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:{&quot;wt&quot;:&quot;lêːk tʰāj&quot;},&quot;2&quot;:{&quot;wt&quot;:&quot;pron&quot;}},&quot;i&quot;:0}}]}">pronounced<span> </span></small><span class="IPA"><a href="/en/Help:IPA/Thai" title="Help:IPA/Thai" class="wl">[lêːk tʰāj]</a></span>) are a set of numerals traditionally used in <a href="/en/Thailand" title="Thailand" class="wl">Thailand</a>, although the <a href="/en/Arabic_numerals" title="Arabic numerals" class="wl">Arabic numerals</a> are more common due to extensive <a href="/en/Westernization" title="Westernization" class="wl">westernization</a> of Thailand in the modern <a href="/en/Rattanakosin" title="Rattanakosin" class="mw-redirect wl">Rattanakosin period</a>. Thai numerals follow the <a href="/en/Hindu–Arabic_numeral_system" title="Hindu–Arabic numeral system" class="wl">Hindu–Arabic numeral system</a> commonly used in the rest of the world. In Thai language, numerals often follow the modified noun and precede a measure word, although variations to this pattern occur.</p>

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<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title"><div class="sidebar-list-title-c"><a href="/en/Positional_notation" title="Positional notation" class="wl">Place-value notation</a></div></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"><table class="sidebar-subgroup"><tbody><tr><td class="sidebar-content hlist">
<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title"><div class="sidebar-list-title-c"><a href="/en/Hindu–Arabic_numeral_system" title="Hindu–Arabic numeral system" class="wl">Hindu-Arabic numerals</a></div></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content">
<ul><li><a href="/en/Arabic_numerals" title="Arabic numerals" class="wl">Western Arabic</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Eastern_Arabic_numerals" title="Eastern Arabic numerals" class="wl">Eastern Arabic</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="/en/Bengali_numerals" title="Bengali numerals" class="wl">Bengali</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Devanagari_numerals" title="Devanagari numerals" class="wl">Devanagari</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Gujarati_numerals" title="Gujarati numerals" class="wl">Gujarati</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Gurmukhi_numerals" title="Gurmukhi numerals" class="mw-redirect wl">Gurmukhi</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Odia_numerals" title="Odia numerals" class="wl">Odia</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Sinhala_numerals" title="Sinhala numerals" class="wl">Sinhala</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Tamil_numerals" title="Tamil numerals" class="wl">Tamil</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Malayalam_numerals" title="Malayalam numerals" class="wl">Malayalam</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Telugu_script#Numerals" title="Telugu script" class="wl">Telugu</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Kannada_script#Numerals" title="Kannada script" class="wl">Kannada</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Dzongkha_numerals" title="Dzongkha numerals" class="wl">Dzongkha</a></li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="/en/Tibetan_numerals" title="Tibetan numerals" class="wl">Tibetan</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Balinese_numerals" title="Balinese numerals" class="wl">Balinese</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Burmese_numerals" title="Burmese numerals" class="wl">Burmese</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Javanese_numerals" title="Javanese numerals" class="wl">Javanese</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Khmer_numerals" title="Khmer numerals" class="wl">Khmer</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Lao_script#Numerals" title="Lao script" class="wl">Lao</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Mongolian_numerals" title="Mongolian numerals" class="wl">Mongolian</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Sundanese_numerals" title="Sundanese numerals" class="wl">Sundanese</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Thai_numerals" title="Thai numerals" class="wl">Thai</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<dl><dt>Contemporary</dt></dl>

<ul><li><a href="/en/Chinese_numerals" title="Chinese numerals" class="wl">Chinese</a>
<ul><li><a href="/en/Suzhou_numerals" title="Suzhou numerals" class="wl">Suzhou</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/en/Hokkien_numerals" title="Hokkien numerals" class="wl">Hokkien</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Japanese_numerals" title="Japanese numerals" class="wl">Japanese</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Korean_numerals" title="Korean numerals" class="wl">Korean</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Vietnamese_numerals" title="Vietnamese numerals" class="wl">Vietnamese</a></li></ul>

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<dl><dt>Historic</dt></dl>

<ul><li><a href="/en/Counting_rods" title="Counting rods" class="wl">Counting rods</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Tangut_numerals" title="Tangut numerals" class="wl">Tangut</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<ul><li><a href="/en/History_of_ancient_numeral_systems" title="History of ancient numeral systems" class="wl">History</a></li></ul>

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<dl><dt><a href="/en/Ancient_history" title="Ancient history" class="wl">Ancient</a></dt></dl>

<ul><li><a href="/en/Babylonian_cuneiform_numerals" title="Babylonian cuneiform numerals" class="wl">Babylonian</a></li></ul>

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<dl><dt><a href="/en/Post-classical_history" title="Post-classical history" class="wl">Post-classical</a></dt></dl>

<ul><li><a href="/en/Cistercian_numerals" title="Cistercian numerals" class="wl">Cistercian</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Maya_numerals" title="Maya numerals" class="wl">Mayan</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Muisca_numerals" title="Muisca numerals" class="wl">Muisca</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Pentadic_numerals" title="Pentadic numerals" class="wl">Pentadic</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Quipu" title="Quipu" class="wl">Quipu</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Rumi_Numeral_Symbols" title="Rumi Numeral Symbols" class="wl">Rumi</a></li></ul>

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<dl><dt>Contemporary</dt></dl>

<ul><li><a href="/en/Cherokee_syllabary#Numerals" title="Cherokee syllabary" class="wl">Cherokee</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Kaktovik_numerals" title="Kaktovik numerals" class="wl">Kaktovik</a> (Iñupiaq)</li></ul></div></div></td>
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<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title"><div class="sidebar-list-title-c">By <a href="/en/Radix" title="Radix" class="wl">radix/base</a></div></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content">
<dl><dt>Common radices/bases</dt></dl>
<ul><li><a href="/en/Binary_number" title="Binary number" class="wl">2</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Ternary_numeral_system" title="Ternary numeral system" class="wl">3</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Quaternary_numeral_system" title="Quaternary numeral system" class="wl">4</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Quinary" title="Quinary" class="wl">5</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Senary" title="Senary" class="wl">6</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Octal" title="Octal" class="wl">8</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Decimal" title="Decimal" class="wl">10</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Duodecimal" title="Duodecimal" class="wl">12</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Hexadecimal" title="Hexadecimal" class="wl">16</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Vigesimal" title="Vigesimal" class="wl">20</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Sexagesimal" title="Sexagesimal" class="wl">60</a></li>
<li>(<a href="/en/Table_of_bases" title="Table of bases" class="wl">table</a>)</li></ul>

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<dl><dt><a href="/en/Non-standard_positional_numeral_systems" title="Non-standard positional numeral systems" class="wl">Non-standard radices/bases</a></dt></dl>

<ul><li><a href="/en/Bijective_numeration" title="Bijective numeration" class="wl">Bijective</a><span class="nowrap"><span>&nbsp;</span></span>(<a href="/en/Unary_numeral_system" title="Unary numeral system" class="wl">1</a>)</li>
<li><a href="/en/Signed-digit_representation" title="Signed-digit representation" class="wl">Signed-digit</a><span class="nowrap"><span>&nbsp;</span></span>(<a href="/en/Balanced_ternary" title="Balanced ternary" class="wl">balanced ternary</a>)</li>
<li><a href="/en/Mixed_radix" title="Mixed radix" class="wl">Mixed</a><span class="nowrap"><span>&nbsp;</span></span>(<a href="/en/Factorial_number_system" title="Factorial number system" class="wl">factorial</a>)</li>
<li><a href="/en/Negative_base" title="Negative base" class="wl">Negative</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Complex-base_system" title="Complex-base system" class="wl">Complex</a><span class="nowrap"><span>&nbsp;</span></span>(<a href="/en/Quater-imaginary_base" title="Quater-imaginary base" class="wl">2<i>i</i></a>)</li>
<li><a href="/en/Non-integer_base_of_numeration" title="Non-integer base of numeration" class="wl">Non-integer</a><span class="nowrap"><span>&nbsp;</span></span>(<a href="/en/Golden_ratio_base" title="Golden ratio base" class="wl">φ</a>)</li>
<li><a href="/en/Asymmetric_numeral_systems" title="Asymmetric numeral systems" class="wl">Asymmetric</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<dl><dt>Non-alphabetic</dt></dl>

<ul><li><a href="/en/Aegean_numerals" title="Aegean numerals" class="wl">Aegean</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Attic_numerals" title="Attic numerals" class="wl">Attic</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Brahmi_numerals" title="Brahmi numerals" class="wl">Brahmi</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Chuvash_numerals" title="Chuvash numerals" class="wl">Chuvash</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Egyptian_numerals" title="Egyptian numerals" class="wl">Egyptian</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Etruscan_numerals" title="Etruscan numerals" class="wl">Etruscan</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Kharosthi_numerals" title="Kharosthi numerals" class="mw-redirect wl">Kharosthi</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Prehistoric_counting" title="Prehistoric counting" class="wl">Prehistoric counting</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Proto-cuneiform_numerals" title="Proto-cuneiform numerals" class="wl">Proto-cuneiform</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Roman_numerals" title="Roman numerals" class="wl">Roman</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Tally_marks" title="Tally marks" class="wl">Tally marks</a></li></ul>

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<dl><dt><a href="/en/Alphabetic_numeral_system" title="Alphabetic numeral system" class="wl">Alphabetic</a></dt></dl>

<ul><li><a href="/en/Abjad_numerals" title="Abjad numerals" class="wl">Abjad</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Armenian_numerals" title="Armenian numerals" class="wl">Armenian</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Alphasyllabic_numeral_system" title="Alphasyllabic numeral system" class="wl">Alphasyllabic</a>
<ul><li><a href="/en/Aksharapalli" title="Aksharapalli" class="wl">Akṣarapallī</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Āryabhaṭa_numeration" title="Āryabhaṭa numeration" class="wl">Āryabhaṭa</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Katapayadi_system" title="Katapayadi system" class="wl">Kaṭapayādi</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="/en/Coptic_numerals" title="Coptic numerals" class="mw-redirect wl">Coptic</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Cyrillic_numerals" title="Cyrillic numerals" class="wl">Cyrillic</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Geʽez_script#Numerals" title="Geʽez script" class="wl">Geʽez</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Georgian_numerals" title="Georgian numerals" class="wl">Georgian</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Glagolitic_numerals" title="Glagolitic numerals" class="wl">Glagolitic</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Greek_numerals" title="Greek numerals" class="wl">Greek</a></li>
<li><a href="/en/Hebrew_numerals" title="Hebrew numerals" class="wl">Hebrew</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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Thai numerals are a set of numerals traditionally used in Thailand, although the Arabic numerals are more common due to extensive westernization of Thailand in the modern Rattanakosin period. Thai numerals follow the Hindu–Arabic numeral system commonly used in the rest of the world. In Thai language, numerals often follow the modified noun and precede a measure word, although variations to this pattern occur. 