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Character Counter

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Characters
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Characters (no spaces)
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Words
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Bytes (UTF-8)

How to Use

Type or paste text into the textarea to see real-time counts for characters, words, lines, and UTF-8 byte size. All counts update instantly as you type.

What Is Counted

  • Characters: total number of characters including spaces and newlines
  • Characters (no spaces): characters excluding all whitespace (spaces, tabs, newlines)
  • Words: number of words separated by whitespace (English and space-delimited languages)
  • Lines: number of lines (counts line breaks)
  • Bytes (UTF-8): size in bytes when encoded as UTF-8 — ASCII characters are 1 byte, most CJK characters are 3 bytes, and emoji are 4 bytes

Use Cases

  • X (Twitter) posts: the 280-character limit counts every character equally — check your length before posting
  • SEO meta descriptions: Google typically displays 120-160 characters — optimize your description length here
  • SMS messages: a single SMS holds 160 ASCII characters (70 for CJK) — longer messages are split into multiple parts
  • Database column validation: verify that input data fits within VARCHAR(255) or other column size constraints

Characters vs Bytes

Character count and byte size are different concepts. In UTF-8, ASCII characters (A-Z, 0-9) are 1 byte each, but Japanese hiragana/katakana/kanji are 3 bytes each, and emoji are 4 bytes each. For example, 'Hello' is 5 characters and 5 bytes, while its Japanese equivalent is 5 characters but 15 bytes. Byte size matters for database column limits and API payload restrictions, so always check both character count and byte size when working with multilingual text.

Privacy

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