Chinese Character Counting Tools
Need to count the characters or words in a piece of Chinese text? These tools can count Hanzi, Chinese words, punctuation, spaces, and other elements of Chinese and mixed-language text. Some offer additional features such as word segmentation, character frequency, Simplified and Traditional character breakdowns, and stroke counts.
Chinese Character Counting Resources
This tool analyzes Hanzi, punctuation, spaces, numbers, and English letters separately. Results update instantly as you type, with a visual breakdown showing the proportion of each character type in your text.
You can choose whether to include punctuation and spaces in the total count, making it easy to adjust the results for different counting requirements.
Free Web-Based
This tool counts Chinese words by separating Chinese text into individual words. Since Chinese does not normally use spaces between words, the tool analyzes the text to determine where one word ends and another begins.
It displays Chinese word and character counts side by side and offers both a quick counting mode and a more accurate dictionary-based mode.
Free Web-Based
This tool counts only Hanzi, automatically excluding punctuation, spaces, numbers, English letters, and other non-Chinese characters. It gives you a clean Chinese character count without requiring you to remove other content from the text first.
It also shows the number of unique Hanzi and the most frequently used characters in your text, making it useful for analyzing character frequency and variety. Both Simplified and Traditional Chinese characters are supported.
Free Web-Based
This tool estimates the total number of strokes in the Hanzi in your text. It also calculates the average number of strokes per character and automatically excludes punctuation, spaces, numbers, and other non-Chinese characters.
The counter supports both Simplified and Traditional Chinese and identifies any characters it cannot find in its stroke dictionary. Stroke counts are estimates because they can vary between regional standards.
Free Web-Based
This tool provides detailed counts for both Chinese and English text. Paste or type your text to instantly see separate totals for Chinese characters, Chinese punctuation, English letters, English words, English punctuation, numbers, and paragraphs.
It also provides combined totals for Chinese text, English text, and the entire passage, making it especially useful for analyzing text that contains a mixture of Chinese and English.
Free Web-Based
This tool separately counts Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Pinyin, and English characters in your text. Paste or type your text to see individual counts for each category, along with the total number of Chinese characters and total characters overall.
It also provides a percentage breakdown showing how much of the text is Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Pinyin, English, or other characters, making it useful for analyzing mixed-language text.
Free Web-Based