1. Enter Text: Paste the text you want to count into the input box. Supports any language and special characters.
2. Real-time Stats: The system automatically counts characters, bytes, lines, and more. Results update in real-time.
3. View Details: Check character counts with/without spaces, UTF-8 byte counts, and separate Chinese/English statistics.
It counts total characters (with spaces and line breaks), characters without spaces, UTF-8 bytes, lines, words, paragraphs, sentences, and separate English/Chinese counts. Useful for Twitter character limits, SEO title optimization, and translation word count estimation.
In UTF-8, each Chinese character uses 3 bytes. English letters, digits, and common punctuation use 1 byte. Emoji typically use 4 bytes. This tool uses the TextEncoder API for precise UTF-8 byte counts.
Different characters use different numbers of bytes in UTF-8. English = 1 byte, Chinese = 3 bytes, Emoji = 4 bytes. For example, 'Hello' is 5 characters = 5 bytes, but 'δ½ ε₯½' is 2 characters = 6 bytes. This is why VARCHAR(255) only holds about 85 Chinese characters.