Free Chinese Character Counter
Chinese text mixes Hanzi (汉字) — the Chinese characters — with Latin letters, digits, and punctuation. This counter separates Hanzi from everything else, giving you accurate counts for translation pricing, social media limits, and academic writing.
How the Chinese Character Counter Works
The counter scans your text and identifies characters in the CJK Unified Ideographs blocks (U+4E00–U+9FFF), including the Extension A and B blocks. Hanzi count, Latin letter count, and total character count are reported separately. Both Simplified (简体) and Traditional (繁體) Chinese are supported.
Tips & Best Practices
1Twitter counts Chinese as 1 character per Hanzi
Until 2017, Twitter counted each Hanzi as 1 character — letting Chinese tweets convey twice the information of English tweets in the same 140 limit.
2Translation pricing uses Hanzi count
Most Chinese-to-English translators charge per Hanzi. An accurate Hanzi count is essential for project quoting.
3Each Hanzi is usually 3 bytes in UTF-8
Plan database column sizes accordingly — 100 Hanzi takes 300 bytes, not 100.
4WeChat status: 200 Chinese characters
WeChat 'Moments' status limit is 200 Chinese characters (or roughly 600 Latin characters).
Need a Full Text Analysis?
Our main Character Counter gives you a complete breakdown — characters, words, sentences, paragraphs, reading time, and keyword frequency — all in one view.
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