Character Counter
| Charactersno whitespace0 | All characterswith whitespace0 | CJK characters0 |
| Letters0 | Digits0 | Spaces / newlines0 |
| CJK punctuation0 | Punctuation0 | Other symbols0 |
About Character Counter
Type or paste text below and the numbers follow along as you go.
What the numbers mean
Characters is the one most people look at. It leaves out spaces, tabs and line breaks, and keeps everything else, punctuation included. All characters is the same thing plus whitespace. Below those, letters, digits and CJK characters each get their own line, and punctuation is split into Chinese (，。！？) and English (, . ! ?) because the two behave differently in character limits.
One detail worth knowing: an emoji counts as one, not two. Plenty of tools say two because they count UTF-16 units instead of characters. If your form limit treats an emoji as one character, the count here is the one to trust.
What people use it for
Mostly places with a hard limit where one character over is annoying: meta descriptions, product titles, SMS templates, app store copy. Chinese abstracts capped at 300 characters are another common one.
It also catches mistakes. A classic: the CJK count is unchanged, the letter count has tripled — something went wrong in the translation.
Why your number differs from Word
Word counts words, not characters, and for Chinese it treats roughly 1.5 characters as one word. Some editors also drop punctuation from the character count. So the numbers will not match, and they are not supposed to. What you get here is the raw count: paste the same text twice, see the same number twice.
Frequently asked questions
Does an emoji count as one or two?
One. It takes two UTF-16 units in memory, but it reads as one character, and form limits usually count it that way too. Simple counters that count by unit often report two.
Why doesn't my number match Word?
Word counts words, and its Chinese logic treats about 1.5 characters as one word. Some editors also leave punctuation out of character counts. The count here is raw, so the same text always gives the same number.
Is punctuation counted?
Yes. Only spaces, tabs and line breaks are left out of the main count. Punctuation is also broken out on its own lines, Chinese and English separately.
Do you keep my text?
No. Refresh the page and it is gone. There is no history, so nothing to recover either.
