The online word counter counts characters in real time. Chinese characters and Chinese punctuation count as two characters, while digits, spaces, English letters and English punctuation count as one. It counts all characters in the input box live and works for counting words in all major browsers.
This tool belongs to the “Text processing” category.
Your input is processed locally in the browser whenever possible. We do not store it.
Chinese is counted per character; English is reported both per character and per whitespace-separated word.
Bounded by the browser and the request size. Tens of thousands of characters are routine; split a whole book into chunks.
Many characters map one-to-many and need context. The tool uses common mappings — proof-read proper nouns.