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Word & Character Counter

Count characters, words, sentences and paragraphs — counting CJK characters correctly rather than treating a whole sentence as one word.

Input

Characters0
Characters (no spaces)0
Words0
Sentences0
Paragraphs0
Lines0
Bytes (UTF-8)0
Reading time (minutes)1

Counting that works for every script

Splitting on spaces gives the wrong answer for Chinese, Japanese and Korean, where a whole sentence can be written without a single space. Here, CJK characters are counted individually and the remaining text by whitespace runs, so both a Korean paragraph and an English one report a sensible word count.

Character counts use code points, not UTF-16 units, so an emoji counts as one character rather than two.

Frequently asked questions

Why do characters and bytes differ?

Characters counts what you see; bytes counts the UTF-8 encoding. An ASCII letter is 1 byte, a Hangul syllable is 3, and many emoji are 4 or more.

How is reading time estimated?

At 200 words per minute, a common average for prose. Technical text is generally slower.

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