Abjad Numerology Table

The Abjad (أبجد) system assigns a fixed numerical value to each letter of the Arabic alphabet. The table below is the Abjad al-Kabir ("great Abjad") in the Eastern, or Mashriqi, order used across the Arabic, Persian, Urdu and wider South Asian tradition, where the twenty-eight letters run from 1 to 1000. To find the Abjad value of a word, add the value of each of its letters.

The 28 classical Abjad letters

These twenty-eight values are the historical constants of the system and have been stable for over a thousand years.

Persian, Urdu and Sindhi letter variants

Languages that extended the Arabic script added letters that are not part of the classical twenty-eight. In Abjad reckoning each of these takes the value of the base Arabic letter it is derived from (for example Gaf گ is read as Kaf ك = 20). The most common variants are listed below.

Notes on counting

• Diacritics are not counted. Short-vowel marks (tashkeel), the shadda, tatweel and digits carry no Abjad value; a letter under a shadda is still counted once.
• Do-chashmi He (ھ, U+06BE) is an aspiration marker in digraphs such as بھ and کھ, not a counted letter, so it contributes 0.
• Eastern vs Western order. This table uses the Eastern (Mashriqi) order. The Western (Maghribi) order assigns different values from Sad onward; the two traditions agree on the first letters but diverge for the higher numbers.