Character Counter
Paste your text and the numbers appear — characters, words, lines, paragraphs, and manuscript pages, all updating as you type. Your text is never sent anywhere. No account needed.
Twitter equivalent: 0 tweet(s) (full-width=140 / half-width=280 chars) Half-width chars: 0
How to Use the Character Counter
Type or paste your text into the text area above. The character count, word count, line count, and more are updated in real time as you type — no button press needed.
- Characters: Counts all characters except newlines (includes spaces, symbols, and emoji). Measured in Unicode code points.
- Visible chars: Counts what reads as one character on screen (grapheme clusters), so a combined emoji such as 👨👩👧 counts as 1. Newlines are excluded.
- No spaces: Character count with half-width spaces, full-width spaces, and tabs removed.
- Words: Counts whitespace-delimited tokens as words (best suited for English text).
- Pages (400 chars): By default, character count ÷ 400 rounded up (newlines are not characters). Turn on "Fill each line to 20 cells" to count like genkō yōshi: each line occupies a multiple of 20 cells, then divide by 400.
Click a target chip (such as "X (280)" or "Report (2000)") and the tool shows how many characters remain — or how far you are over the limit. For example, typing Hello world! gives a count of 12, so choosing "Manuscript (400)" shows 388 characters remaining. If you go over a limit instead, the overflow appears in red as N over. Click the same chip again, or "No target", to clear it.
Great for these situations
- Drafting posts for X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, or other platforms with character limits
- Checking the length of reports, essays, or written assignments
- Trimming product descriptions, meta descriptions, or other copy to a target length