Character Counter — Words, Letters and Bytes

What it is

This character counter shows live totals as you type or paste: characters with spaces, characters without spaces, words, lines, paragraphs and sentences. There is no length limit, so a whole article works. It also reports byte size and checks your text against common length limits with a progress bar. Nothing is sent to a server.

How to use

1. Type or paste text into the box. The numbers update immediately.
2. Pick a target such as X post, Instagram caption, meta description or YouTube title, or choose Custom and enter your own limit.
3. Watch the bar and the remaining count. If you go over, the bar turns red and shows how many characters to cut.
4. Press Clear to start over.

How it works

• Characters are grapheme clusters as defined by Unicode Standard Annex #29, using the browser’s Intl.Segmenter. Letters with combining accents, emoji and flags each count once.
• Characters without spaces leave out spaces, tabs and line breaks.
• Words are runs of text separated by whitespace, so Chinese, Japanese or Korean text written without spaces counts as one word per unbroken run. Paragraphs are blocks separated by blank lines. Sentences use Unicode sentence boundaries.
• UTF-8 bytes come from the standard TextEncoder: 1 byte for ASCII, 2 to 3 bytes for most other scripts and 4 for most emoji.
• EUC-KR style bytes are a simple estimate used for Korean systems: 1 byte for ASCII and 2 bytes for every other character.
• Manuscript pages are characters divided by 200, the size of a traditional Korean manuscript sheet. It is a plain estimate that ignores indentation rules.
• Presets compare against the plain character count. Platforms may weight some characters differently, for example links or East Asian characters on X, so treat the preset as a close guide and check the platform’s own counter for edge cases.

Examples

Text	Characters	Without spaces	Words	UTF-8 bytes
Hello World	11	10	2	11
안녕하세요 세계	8	7	2	22
👍	1	1	1	4
café (with e + combining accent)	4	4	1	6