Chinese Character Counter Words, and Strokes Easily

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Need to count Chinese characters or estimate how many words they represent? Whether you’re writing, translating, studying, or optimizing Chinese content, our free Chinese Character Counter helps you get quick and accurate insights — instantly.

Chinese Character Counter

Chinese Characters
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Total Characters
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Spaces: 0
Estimated Words: 0
English Characters: 0
Numbers: 0

🔍 What Is the Chinese Character Counter?

The Chinese Character Counter is a free, easy-to-use online tool designed to count:

  • Chinese characters
  • Total character count
  • Estimated word count (Chinese)
  • English letters
  • Spaces
  • Numbers

It’s perfect for writers, language learners, content creators, and translators working with Simplified or Traditional Chinese.

⚙️ How It Works

Our tool scans your input text and breaks it down into:

  1. Chinese character count
  2. Total character count
  3. Estimated Chinese word count
  4. English character count
  5. Spaces
  6. Number count
  7. (Coming Soon): Stroke counter for each Chinese character

Unlike traditional word counters (which rely on spaces), this tool uses pattern recognition to accurately detect and count Chinese characters, which don’t use spaces between words.

✏️ Why Counting Chinese Characters Is Important

In Chinese, character count often matters more than word count:

  • Social media platforms like WeChat, Weibo, and Xiaohongshu may have character limits.
  • Translators need to charge per Chinese character.
  • Writers submitting essays or articles in Chinese must meet strict character count requirements.
  • Students often need to know how to count strokes in Chinese characters for exams or writing practice.

💡 Chinese Word Count ≠ English Word Count

Unlike English, Chinese words can be 1, 2, or even 3 characters long. That’s why the tool estimates Chinese character word count using a proven average — 1 word ≈ 1.5 characters.

Want to know how your content compares in English? Paste it in and see the total character count and estimated word count side by side.

🔤 Stroke Counter & Stroke Count Features (Coming Soon)

We are also working on adding:

  • Chinese character stroke counter
  • List of Chinese characters by stroke count
  • 100-count chart of Chinese characters
  • Chinese counting characters (numbers in Chinese)

These features are especially useful for:

  • Calligraphy practice
  • Hanzi stroke learning
  • Teaching kids numbers with a 100 count chart in Chinese characters

✅ Use Cases

  • Count in Chinese characters before submitting an assignment
  • Track how many Chinese characters by stroke count for calligraphy
  • Estimate Chinese-to-English translation costs (1 million Chinese character count to English ≈ 650k English words)
  • Create a 100 count numbers chart in Chinese characters for schools
  • Know how to count Chinese characters in Word (tip: MS Word can’t do this accurately for Chinese — our tool can!)

📋 Sample Input

Paste this to test:

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The tool will instantly display:

  • Chinese characters: ✅
  • Estimated words: ✅
  • Total characters: ✅
  • Numbers, spaces, and English letters (if any): ✅