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Word Counter

Word Counter tallies words, characters, sentences and paragraphs the moment you type, and compares the totals against the character ceilings that matter for publishing — a tweet, a meta description, an ad headline. Nothing is uploaded.

Statistics

Estimated fee

¥0.00

Billable units 0 × ¥50.00 / 1k chars

Chinese characters: 0 chars
English words: 0 words
Total characters: 0 chars
Paragraphs: 0 paras

Excluding whitespace: 0 · Punctuation counts toward total characters but not toward the Chinese character count.

How to use

1
Paste or type your text
Drop in a draft, a caption, a product description or a manuscript chapter. Counting happens live as you edit, so the numbers track every keystroke. The text never leaves the page — the count runs in your browser using JavaScript, with no upload at any point.
2
Read the live totals
The panel shows words, characters (with and without spaces), sentences and paragraphs at a glance. For mixed text, Chinese, Japanese and Korean runs are counted by character while Latin runs are counted by space-delimited word, which is how each writing system is conventionally measured.
3
Compare against a platform limit
Pick a target such as a tweet, a meta description or an ad headline and the counter shows how much room you have left. When you go over, the relevant figure turns red so you can trim before you publish rather than discovering the truncation after the fact.
4
Toggle spaces and character sets
Switch between characters including spaces and characters excluding them, because the two numbers differ and different platforms count differently. Some limits ignore whitespace; others count every glyph, including the spaces between your words.
5
Estimate a manuscript fee
If your rate is per thousand characters, enter the unit price and the counter estimates the fee from the character total. Chinese publishing conventionally prices by the thousand-character unit, so the character count — not the word count — is the figure that drives the money.

Key facts

Twitter / XThe standard tweet length has been 280 characters since November 2017, up from the original 140-character limit introduced in 2006.Source:Twitter/X announcement (2017)
Meta descriptionGoogle typically shows up to about 155 to 160 characters of a meta description; the real limit is ~920 CSS pixels, so wider glyphs truncate sooner.Source:Google Search Central
CJK countingChinese, Japanese and Korean are not space-delimited, so word count equals character count for those runs rather than a space-based word tally.Source:Conventional counting
Manuscript feeChinese publishing commonly prices by the thousand-character unit, so the character total — not the word count — drives the fee estimate.Source:Publishing convention
PrivacyEvery count is computed in your browser. No text is transmitted to any server.Source:This tool

Frequently asked questions

How are Chinese and English counted differently?

The two scripts are measured by different units. English and other space-delimited languages are counted as words: sequences of characters split on whitespace. Chinese, Japanese and Korean are not separated by spaces, so a "word" has no natural meaning and the count is the number of characters (excluding punctuation and whitespace by most conventions). A single paragraph can therefore report both a word count (for the Latin parts) and a character count (for the CJK parts), and the two should not be added together.

What is the Twitter / X character limit?

A standard tweet allows 280 characters, raised from the original 140 in November 2017. Some accounts and some languages historically received longer limits, but 280 is the figure to design against. Note that characters are counted, not words, and that URLs are often shortened to a fixed length regardless of the original, so a long link may consume fewer characters than it appears to.

What is the ideal meta description length?

Search engines such as Google generally display up to about 155 to 160 characters of a meta description before truncating, though the precise cutoff is measured in pixels (roughly 920px) rather than characters and therefore depends on the letters used. Aim for a complete sentence under about 155 characters that states the page value, because anything longer is likely to be cut off with an ellipsis in the result snippet.

Do spaces count as characters?

It depends on which number you read. "Characters including spaces" counts every glyph and every space; "characters excluding spaces" drops the whitespace. Many platform limits count characters including spaces, so if a tool reports only the excluding-spaces figure you may still be over the limit once the spaces are put back in. Toggle the view and check both before publishing.

Is my text uploaded to a server?

No. All counting runs locally in your browser; nothing is sent, stored or logged on any server. You can paste confidential drafts, client copy or unpublished manuscripts without any of the text leaving the page, which matters precisely because word counts are often the last step before something sensitive goes out the door. The calculation uses only the JavaScript engine already loaded in your tab.

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