Urdu Numbers 1 to 100 — اردو گنتی (Complete Guide)

By WordsForNumbers Editorial Team · Updated 2026-09-30 · 46 min read

Urdu numbers 1–20

Tens: 20–100

Compound numbers combine the tens and ones: 21 = اکیس، 35 = پینتیس، 47 = سینتالیس، 99 = ننانوے۔ See the complete 1–100 table for every spelling.

Beyond 100: ہزار، لاکھ، کروڑ، ارب

• 1,000 — ایک ہزار
• 1,00,000 — ایک لاکھ
• 1,00,00,000 — ایک کروڑ
• 1,00,00,00,000 — ایک ارب
• Urdu always uses the Indian grouping — there is no Urdu word for "million"; use لاکھ/کروڑ.

Common spelling mistakes

• چھ (6) is written with چھ — not "چہ".
• پینتیس (35), not "پینتی".
• اٹھارہ (18) vs اٹھائیس (28) — easy to confuse; double-check.
• سو (100) for round hundreds: دو سو = 200, تین سو = 300.

The 21–99 pattern: how Urdu compounds are built

Urdu does not say بیس ایک for 21. Instead, each compound number is a single fused word: the ones digit merges with a modified tens stem. Once you learn the pattern per decade, you can form any number between 21 and 99. The table below shows one example from each decade and how it is built.

Pronunciation guide

• چھ (6) — chheh, with a strong aspirated ch sound.
• سولہ (16) — so-lah, stress on the first syllable.
• چالیس (40) — chaa-lees, with a long aa.
• ساٹھ (60) — saath, rhymes with English month without the n.
• اسی (80) — as-si, short sharp vowels.
• نوے (90) — nav-vay.
• سو (100) — sau, like sow.
• Reading the numbers aloud daily for a week locks them in — counting is muscle memory.

Where you will actually use Urdu numbers

• Shopping and bargaining — پچاس روپے (fifty rupees), دو سو (two hundred).
• Phone numbers — read digit by digit: 0300 becomes صفر تین صفر صفر.
• Ages — میری عمر پچیس سال ہے (I am twenty-five years old).
• Dates — پچیس دسمبر (25 December).
• Tasbih counting — تینتیس بار (thirty-three times) after prayers.
• Cricket scores — commentators switch to Urdu numbers constantly: دو سو رنز (200 runs).

Urdu (Eastern Arabic) digits

Pakistani newspapers, price tags and hand-painted shop boards often use Eastern Arabic digits: ۱ ۲ ۳ ۴ ۵ ۶ ۷ ۸ ۹ ۰. They map one-to-one with 1–9 and 0. Recognizing both scripts means you can read any Urdu price board, form or notice without hesitation.

Hundreds in Urdu: 100 سے 900

Compounds stack naturally: 250 = دو سو پچاس، 365 = تین سو پینسٹھ، 999 = نو سو ننانوے۔ The hundreds word always comes first, then the tens and ones exactly as you learned them for 1–99.

Thousands: 1,000 سے 99,000

Thousands follow the same stacking logic: ایک ہزار (1,000)، دو ہزار (2,000)، دس ہزار (10,000)، پچاس ہزار (50,000)، نوے ہزار (90,000)۔ Compounds: 1,250 = ایک ہزار دو سو پچاس، 25,000 = پچیس ہزار، 75,500 = پچھتر ہزار پانچ سو۔

Lakhs and crores the Urdu way

Everyday Urdu has special words for fractional lakhs — learn these and you will sound instantly natural:

نوٹ: ڈیڑھ is only ever used with لاکھ (ڈیڑھ لاکھ) — for one and a half thousand say پندرہ سو, never “ڈیڑھ ہزار”。

Ordinal numbers: پہلا، دوسرا، تیسرا

The masculine/feminine pair matters: پہلا دن (first day, masculine) but پہلی رات (first night, feminine).

Telling time in Urdu

• پانچ بجے — 5:00
• سوا پانچ — 5:15 (quarter past)
• ساڑھے پانچ — 5:30 (half past)
• پونے چھ — 5:45 (quarter to six)
• پانچ بج کر دس منٹ — 5:10

Money in Urdu: روپے اور پیسے

Prices combine everything you have learned: Rs 50.50 = پچاس روپے پچاس پیسے، Rs 1,250 = ایک ہزار دو سو پچاس روپے، Rs 75,000 = پچھتر ہزار روپے۔ For the full rules on writing fractions of a rupee, see paise and decimal rules.

Practice: test yourself

Cover the right column and read each number aloud:

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