Even after they grow up, encountering strange characters or mispronouncing characters might still cause them daily headache. It's said that there are more than 100,000 characters, but in daily life, a 3,000 character vocabulary would make you literate, a 5,000 one would make you well-educated, and an 8,000 one would make you learned.įor small Chinese kids, copying and memorizing characters is great torture, as much as conjugations are to French children. How many characters are in the Chinese language? Characters form phrases, and phrases form sentences. Each character is unique, composed of radicals or strokes. Chinese Alphabetĭue to its hieroglyphic origin, Chinese doesn't have an alphabet. Historically, 豳 was a capital of the early Zhou people. So 豳 is likely a place where there are lots of wild boars. Later on, the characters have grown less 'picturesque', but some are still intriguing to look at. In the beginning, each character was a tiny picture. The Chinese writing system is largely hieroglyphic. Warning: Only click this button if you are sure you want to delete everything. If you make a mistake and want to start over, click the red 'CLEAR TEXT' button to delete all text within the text-box. This makes it convenient to then paste into whatever document you are using. Once you are done typing, click the green 'COPY TEXT' button to copy all the text inside the text-box. The number count displays the count of numbers.

The English character count is simply any letter of the alphabet A-Z in upper or lower case. The way we estimated the Chinese word counter works is by taking the Chinese characters and multiplying them by 70%. The word count represents the estimated number of Chinese words. Find the word count of a Chinese text using our Chinese word counter The space count includes any whitespace character, so newlines (enter key) counts as a space. On the left, or on the bottom for mobile, there is a box that displays a running count of spaces, estimated words, English characters and numbers. The total characters include anything that is a character, so Chinese characters, characters from other languages, symbols, numbers etc.

The total characters will display in the top right box. The number of Chinese characters will display in the top left box. To get started, simply start typing in the text-box above. Welcome to our Chinese character counter and Chinese word counter tool!

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