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8 ချင်ရွေး, or 4 ရွေး​ကြီး make one ပဲ great, marked ( ဲ), as ၁ဲ, တပဲ

6 ချင်, or 3 ရွေး​ကြီး make one ပဲ small, marked the same.

4 ပဲ great, or 5 ပဲ small make one မတ်, marked ( ံ), as ၁ံ, တမတ်.

4 မတ် make one ကျပ်, marked ( ိ), as ၁ိ, တ​ကျပ်

100 ကျပ် make one ပိဿာ, marked ( ိါ), or ( ါ), as ၁ိါ or ၁ါ, တပိဿာ).

N. B. The term အခွက် is substituted for ပိဿာ, in connection with any capital number above ten, as အ​ခွက်​နှစ်​ဆယ် for ပိဿာ​နှစ်​ဆယ်, twenty pikthahs. Ten pikthahs is written အ​ခွက်​တ​ဆယ်, or ဆယ်​ပိဿာ.

Also,

2 ပဲ great make one မူး great, marked ( ူ), as ၁ူ, တမူး

8 မူး great make one ကျပ်,

2 ပဲ small make one မူး small, marked as above.

10 မူး small make one ကျပ်.

measures of length.

အသစ် or လက်​သစ်, a finger’s breadth, marked ( ံ), as ၁ံ, တ​သစ်.