Hanzi Counter – Count Chinese Characters Only

Hanzi (汉字) is the Chinese term for Chinese characters — the logographic writing system used in Chinese, and historically in Japanese (Kanji) and Korean (Hanja). In this tool, 'Hanzi' refers specifically to CJK Unified Ideographs as defined by the Unicode standard.

Yes. The Hanzi counter recognizes and counts all CJK Unified Ideographs, which include both Traditional and Simplified forms. Each Hanzi character is counted once regardless of which writing system it belongs to.

Yes. The Hanzi counter focuses exclusively on Chinese characters. Punctuation marks, digits, Latin letters, spaces, and other non-Hanzi symbols are all excluded from the count. This gives you a pure measure of the Chinese character content in your text.

Unique Hanzi is the number of distinct Chinese characters in your text. For example, the phrase '人人为我，我为人人' contains 4 unique Hanzi (人, 为, 我, and the Chinese comma is excluded) even though the total Hanzi count is 8. This metric is useful for assessing vocabulary diversity.

Character count includes everything in the text: Hanzi, punctuation, spaces, digits, Latin letters, and emoji. Hanzi count includes only Chinese characters. For a text like '你好, world! 123', the character count is 14 while the Hanzi count is just 2 (你 and 好).

Yes. Click the 'Export CSV' button below the Top Repeated Hanzi table to download a CSV file containing each unique Hanzi character and its frequency count. You can open this file in Excel, Google Sheets, or any spreadsheet application for further analysis.

Absolutely. Language learners can use the Hanzi counter to measure how many distinct characters they encounter in reading material, track their character recognition progress, and identify the most frequently used characters in a text — all of which are helpful for HSK preparation and vocabulary building.

Yes. The Hanzi counter accurately identifies and counts only the Chinese characters in mixed-language text. English words, numbers, and other non-Chinese content are automatically excluded, so you get an accurate Hanzi count even in bilingual documents.