Tamil has its own set of digit glyphs in the Tamil Unicode block, occupying the ten code points from U+0BE6 to U+0BEF. They map one-to-one onto Western 0 through 9 and are used positionally in modern Tamil, so a year like 2026 is written ௨௦௨௬. This free tool swaps those glyphs for Western digits, or the reverse, across an entire passage while leaving words and punctuation untouched.
How it works
The converter builds two lookup tables — one from Western digits to Tamil glyphs and one back. It then walks the input one character at a time. If a character is in the active table it is replaced; otherwise it is copied through verbatim. Because only the ten digit characters are mapped, Tamil letters, Latin letters, spaces, and punctuation are never altered.
The digit mapping is:
0 ௦ 1 ௧ 2 ௨ 3 ௩ 4 ௪
5 ௫ 6 ௬ 7 ௭ 8 ௮ 9 ௯Tips and notes
Use this when typesetting traditional Tamil documents, lottery tickets, calendars, or signage where the script digits are preferred, then convert back to Western digits for spreadsheets and databases that expect plain numerals.
If you also see standalone symbols for ten ௰, hundred ௱, or thousand ௲ in old manuscripts, note that those belong to the older non-positional Tamil numbering system and are not part of the 0–9 digit swap performed here.