Count Unicode Characters
Accurately count Unicode characters, emojis, and international text using modern grapheme-aware logic. All processing happens locally in your browser.
Unicode Character Counter Tool
About This Tool
This tool counts Unicode text correctly by distinguishing between UTF-16 code units, Unicode code points, and user-perceived characters known as grapheme clusters. This ensures accurate results for emojis, accented characters, and complex scripts.
Key Benefits
- Accurate emoji and Unicode character counting
- Fully local, privacy-friendly computation
- No uploads, tracking, or data storage
- Instant results for large texts
- Works across languages and scripts
Features
- Grapheme-cluster aware counting
- Separate counts for code points and UTF-16 units
- Word and line statistics included
- Responsive, mobile-friendly interface
- Modern browser standard APIs
Use Cases
- Validating character limits in internationalized applications
- Counting emojis for social media or messaging platforms
- Testing Unicode handling in software systems
- Academic or linguistic text analysis
- UX audits for global products
Fun Fact
A single emoji can be composed of multiple Unicode code points joined together, yet users perceive it as one character.
Historical Context
Early software treated characters as single bytes, which failed for non-English languages. Unicode, introduced in the 1990s, unified global character representation, but accurate counting only became practical with modern standards like grapheme segmentation.