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Burmese digits, round by design.
Also known as: Burmese digits
The Burmese numeral forms, built from the same circular strokes as the letters.
Several digits are near-identical to letters — the figure for four and the letter for the sound 'l' among them — so a Burmese number can be genuinely ambiguous out of context.
Contexts: Mathematics
The roundness is a legacy of writing on palm leaf, where a straight stroke along the grain would split the leaf, and it shapes the digits as much as the letters.
Contexts: Mathematics
Ten forms built from circles and arcs, several of them closely resembling Burmese letters.