Chinese Character Frequency & Text Analysis Tools
See what’s really inside a piece of Chinese text. These tools can count Hanzi, words, punctuation, spaces, and more, while advanced options reveal word segmentation, character frequency, Simplified and Traditional breakdowns, stroke counts, and other useful text statistics.
Character & Word Counting Tools
★ Counts Chinese and English text separately in real time, including characters, words, punctuation, numbers, and paragraphs. Chinese Word Counter is a free browser-based tool for analyzing Chinese, English, and mixed-language text. Paste or type text to instantly see separate totals for Chinese characters and punctuation, English letters, words and punctuation, numbers, paragraphs, and the overall character count. Text is processed in your browser and is not stored or transmitted to a server.
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★ Counts Chinese characters, Pinyin, English letters, and total characters in your text. Chinese Character Counter is a free online tool that analyzes pasted or typed text and provides separate counts for Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, total Chinese characters, Pinyin characters, English characters, and total characters. It also shows the percentage of the text made up of each character type, making it useful for checking Chinese writing, assignments, translations, and other text with character limits.
Free Web-BasedText & Frequency Analysis Tools
★ Four free tools provide different ways to analyze Chinese text, from basic character counts to Hanzi frequency and stroke estimates. ChineseCharacterCounter.com offers several browser-based tools for analyzing Simplified and Traditional Chinese text.
The Chinese Character Counter counts Hanzi, punctuation, spaces, numbers, English letters, and other characters, with a detailed composition breakdown.
The Chinese Word Counter estimates the number of Chinese words using quick or more accurate dictionary-based segmentation and also reports characters, sentences, and paragraphs.
The Hanzi Counter counts only Chinese characters, identifies unique and frequently repeated Hanzi, and can export frequency statistics as a CSV file.
The Chinese Stroke Counter estimates total and average strokes across the Hanzi in a text, reports dictionary coverage, and flags characters it cannot identify. All four tools are free, support pasted text or TXT and DOCX uploads, and process files locally in the browser.
★ Counts Han characters across multiple text chunks while keeping a running total for the session. Chinese Character Counting is a free browser-based tool that recognizes more than 70,000 Unicode Han characters, including uncommon characters outside the basic range. Paste text into their website to view a summary and character list, or process multiple chunks one at a time to calculate a combined total.
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★ Look up how often Chinese characters and character pairs appear in real Chinese texts. Jun Da’s Chinese Frequency Statistics is a searchable collection of frequency data for Modern and Classical Chinese. You can check how common individual characters are, compare their frequency across different types of texts, and view common two-character combinations from sources such as news and fiction. Frequency lists can also be downloaded for further study.
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