Arabic Numerals Converter

What Are Arabic-Indic Numerals?

Arabic-Indic numerals are the digit characters used across much of the Middle East and North Africa: ٠ ١ ٢ ٣ ٤ ٥ ٦ ٧ ٨ ٩ for 0 through 9. They live in the Unicode block from U+0660 to U+0669 and are different characters from the Western digits 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 used in most of the world. The two sets represent identical values, but a computer treats them as completely distinct characters, which is why searching, parsing, or comparing numbers across the two scripts can silently fail.

Interestingly, the digits commonly called "Arabic numerals" in the West (0 through 9) were also introduced from the Arab world historically. In Unicode terms, "Arabic-Indic" refers specifically to the glyph shapes used in Arabic script, while the Western digits are the ASCII characters everyone types on a standard keyboard.

How the Arabic Numerals Converter Works

• Type or paste text into the Western numerals box and every digit is converted to Arabic-Indic numerals in the other box.
• Type or paste into the Arabic-Indic numerals box and the reverse conversion happens instantly.
• Enable Also convert Persian and Urdu digits (۰-۹) to treat the extended Arabic-Indic digits used in Persian, Urdu, and Sindhi as numbers too.
• Use the copy or download buttons on either box to take the result with you.

Conversion happens per character, so only digits change. Letters, punctuation, spaces, line breaks, Arabic script words, and formatting all pass through untouched. That makes the tool safe for full paragraphs, invoices, addresses, and mixed Arabic and English text.

Arabic-Indic vs Persian and Urdu Digits

There are two Unicode ranges in common use. The standard Arabic-Indic digits ٠١٢٣٤٥٦٧٨٩ (U+0660 to U+0669) are used in Arabic-speaking countries such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. The extended Persian and Urdu digits ۰۱۲۳۴۵۶۷۸۹ (U+06F0 to U+06F9) are used in Persian, Urdu, Sindhi, and some other languages. Visually they look similar, but they are separate characters, and each has its own code point.

The converter always outputs standard Arabic-Indic digits when converting from Western numerals. When going in the other direction, Persian and Urdu digits are recognized only when the checkbox is enabled, so you stay in control of what gets normalized.

Where You Will Encounter Arabic-Indic Numerals

• Arabic websites, apps, and government forms that display numbers in native digits.
• Invoices, receipts, and price tags from MENA region merchants.
• Dates and timestamps written in Arabic script, such as ٢٠٢٦/٠٣/١٤.
• Phone numbers, national IDs, and postal codes pasted from Arabic language sources.
• OCR output and subtitles transcribed from Arabic videos or scans.
• Database records where numeric-looking values were entered with an Arabic keyboard layout.

If you need to convert between numeral systems more broadly, the All Number Converter handles decimal, binary, hex, and other bases, and the Number to Roman Numerals tool covers the Latin script equivalent.

Why Normalize Arabic-Indic Numerals?

When Arabic-Indic digits end up inside systems that expect ASCII numbers, the failure is rarely obvious. A spreadsheet may store ١٢٣ as text instead of the number 123. A regular expression like \d in a search form may skip them depending on the engine. A CSV import may treat the value as a string, breaking calculations downstream. Converting digits to the Western set before import is the fastest way to make such data usable.

The reverse conversion is just as common for localization: when a product page or an email template tailored to Arabic readers should display numbers in familiar native glyphs, paste the text, convert, and copy the result back. For more text cleanup, the Digits to Words Converter spells numbers out, and the Text to Handwriting Converter turns any text into a handwritten-style image.