Thai numbers: how to count, ask prices and read Thai digits
Counting in Thai is regular once you know ten words and two exceptions. Here are the numbers from the ThaiCards course, with tones, plus the words you need to ask a price.
One to ten
These ten are in the free Beginner Starter deck.
| Thai | Meaning | Tones |
|---|---|---|
| หนึ่ง neung | one | low |
| สอง song | two | rising |
| สาม saam | three | rising |
| สี่ see | four | low |
| ห้า haa | five | falling |
| หก hok | six | low |
| เจ็ด jed | seven | low |
| แปด paet | eight | low |
| เก้า gao | nine | falling |
| สิบ sip | ten | low |
Tens, hundreds and beyond
Tens are built on สิบ, ten: สามสิบ (thirty) is สาม (three) plus ten. Learn two by heart because they break the pattern: สิบเอ็ด (eleven) and ยี่สิบ (twenty). Thai also has its own words for ten thousand and a hundred thousand, which helps with prices.
| Thai | Meaning | Tones |
|---|---|---|
| ศูนย์ soon | zero | rising |
| สิบเอ็ด sip et | eleven | low low |
| ยี่สิบ yee sip | twenty | falling low |
| สามสิบ saam sip | thirty | rising low |
| ร้อย roi | hundred | high |
| พัน phan | thousand | mid |
| หมื่น muen | ten thousand | low |
| ล้าน laan | million | high |
| ครึ่ง khrueng | half | falling |
| แสน saen | hundred thousand | rising |
Asking prices and counting things
Ask เท่าไหร่, "how much", and the answer comes in บาท. When you count things, Thai puts a classifier after the number, a word for the kind of thing you are counting. The street food guide shows one in use: skewers are counted with ไม้.
| Thai | Meaning | Tones |
|---|---|---|
| กี่ gee | how many | low |
| เท่าไหร่ tao rai | how much | falling low |
| บาท baat | baht | low |
| อัน an | general classifier for small things | mid |
| ตัว tua | classifier for animals and clothes | mid |
| ครั้ง khrang | time; occasion | high |
| อีก eek | more; another | low |
Thai digits
Thailand uses the same 0 to 9 as English almost everywhere, but you will see Thai digits on temple signs, official documents and some price lists.
| Digit | Value | Word |
|---|---|---|
| ๐ | 0 | ศูนย์ soon |
| ๑ | 1 | หนึ่ง neung |
| ๒ | 2 | สอง song |
| ๓ | 3 | สาม saam |
| ๔ | 4 | สี่ see |
| ๕ | 5 | ห้า haa |
| ๖ | 6 | หก hok |
| ๗ | 7 | เจ็ด jed |
| ๘ | 8 | แปด paet |
| ๙ | 9 | เก้า gao |
Practice this in ThaiCards
Numbers one to ten are in the free starter deck. The Numbers and Counting lesson adds the rest, with prices and classifiers.
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