How are CJK words counted?

Each Chinese, Japanese, or Korean ideograph is treated as one word, which matches the conventional word-count rule for logographic scripts where words are not separated by spaces.

How are Arabic words counted?

Arabic words are separated by spaces, so the counter uses whitespace tokenization — the same approach as Latin scripts — while correctly ignoring Arabic punctuation marks.

Does this support mixed-language text?

Yes. The counter identifies each token by its Unicode block and applies the correct rule: Latin/Arabic tokens are split by whitespace, and every CJK character within the text counts as one word.

Are characters counted with or without spaces?

Both counts are shown: total characters including spaces, and characters excluding spaces.

Is my text stored or sent anywhere?

No. All processing happens entirely in your browser. Nothing is transmitted to any server.

Word Counter Multilingual

Count words, characters, sentences, and paragraphs in any language — Latin, CJK, and Arabic all handled correctly.

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Summary

A client-side word counter that correctly segments text in Latin-script languages, Chinese, Japanese, Korean (CJK), and Arabic. Paste any text and instantly see word count, character count, sentence count, and paragraph count without sending data to any server.

How it works

The tool detects script type and applies the appropriate segmentation rule: whitespace splitting for Latin and Arabic, Unicode code-point counting for CJK ideographs (each character = one word), and a combined approach for mixed text. Sentence detection uses punctuation boundaries per script. Everything runs in the browser.

Use cases

Check word count for a Chinese or Japanese essay or social post.
Verify a translation meets a word-count requirement for Latin or Arabic content.
Count sentences in a paragraph for academic or editorial review.
Quickly measure paragraph density in mixed-language documents.

Frequently Asked Questions

Last updated: 2026-06-11 · Reviewed by Nham Vu