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Character Count (No Punctuation)
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Character Count (No Newlines)
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Character Count (No Spaces or Newlines)
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How to Use Character Counter
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Text Input

Enter or paste your text into the text box above. Statistics will be displayed in real-time.

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Character Count

Both half-width and full-width characters are counted as one character. Line breaks are also counted as one character. Variant characters are counted as two characters.

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Character Count (Excluding Line Breaks)

Displays the character count excluding line breaks. Both half-width and full-width characters are counted as one character.

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Character Count (Excluding Spaces)

Displays the character count excluding line breaks, tabs, and both half-width and full-width spaces.

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Byte Count by Character Encoding

Displays the byte count for each character encoding (Shift-JIS, UTF-8, JIS, UTF-16). Line breaks are counted as 2 bytes.

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Line Count

Displays the total number of lines in the text.

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Word Count

Counts the number of words separated by spaces. Useful for English and other language texts.

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Reading Time

Displays the estimated time it takes to read the input text.

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Manuscript Paper Conversion

Converts the input character count to the number of manuscript pages (400 characters per page).

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Variant Characters

Variant characters are counted as two characters. This is in line with SNS character limit specifications.

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Performance

To maintain optimal performance, we recommend limiting the text to be processed to within 1 million characters at a time.

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Privacy

Your input is not sent to the server. Feel free to use it with confidence.

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Multilingual Support

Supports text in various languages including Japanese, English, and Chinese.

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SNS Character Limits

Supports character limits for major SNS platforms. Here are the limits for each platform:

• Twitter: 280 characters
• Instagram: 4,000 characters for captions, 2,200 characters for comments
• Facebook: 63,206 characters for posts, 8,000 characters for comments
• LinkedIn: 3,000 characters for posts, 1,250 characters for comments
• TikTok: 2,200 characters for video descriptions, 1,000 characters for comments
• Line: 10,000 characters for messages
• Weibo: 2,000 characters

A warning will be displayed if the input text exceeds the limit for each platform.

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Excel and Word Integration

Provides tips on character counting methods in Excel and Word:

Character counting in Excel:
• Use the function =LEN(cell) to count characters in a specific cell
• Total character count for multiple cells: =SUM(LEN(range))
• Character count excluding spaces: =LEN(SUBSTITUTE(cell, " ", ""))

Checking character count in Word:
• Check character count in the status bar at the bottom of the screen
• [Review] tab > [Word Count] to display detailed statistics
• Advanced character count analysis is possible using macros

By using these tools in conjunction with this site, you can manage character counts more efficiently.