Which characters does the tool count?

It keeps only Han characters in the CJK Unified Ideographs block (U+4E00 to U+9FFF) plus Extension A and compatibility ideographs. Latin letters, ASCII digits, and punctuation — including Chinese full-width punctuation — are excluded so only real hanzi are tallied.

How is unique-character count different from total characters?

Total character count includes every repetition, while unique count is the size of the distinct character set. A 1,000-character article might use only 400 distinct hanzi. The ratio tells you how lexically varied the text is.

Why is this useful for learners?

Reading material is built from a surprisingly small set of high-frequency characters. Ranking the hanzi in something you want to read shows which characters to learn first, since the top few hundred cover the large majority of running text.

What is the code point for?

The Unicode code point uniquely identifies each character regardless of font rendering. It is useful for copying the character into source code, looking it up in a dictionary, or telling apart visually similar glyphs.

Is my text uploaded anywhere?

No. All extraction, counting, and ranking happen in your browser. The text never leaves your device.

Chinese Unique Character Counter

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Chinese text draws on a large character set, but any given passage uses only a fraction of it — often with a steep frequency curve. This tool extracts every unique Chinese character, ignores the Latin and punctuation around it, and ranks the characters by how often they appear.

How it works

The tool walks the text character by character and keeps only those whose Unicode code point lies in a Han (CJK) block:

U+3400 – U+4DBF   CJK Extension A
U+4E00 – U+9FFF   CJK Unified Ideographs (the common hanzi)
U+F900 – U+FAFF   CJK Compatibility Ideographs

Everything else — Latin letters, digits, ASCII and full-width punctuation — is skipped. The surviving characters are tallied, sorted by count, and each is shown with its U+XXXX code point and its share of all Chinese characters in the text.

Example and tips

The phrase 我爱学习中文 contains 6 characters, all distinct, so the unique count equals the total. In a longer document the gap widens fast: a few characters such as 的是不我 recur constantly while most appear only once. Watch the unique-to-total ratio — a low ratio means the text reuses a tight vocabulary, which usually makes it easier to read.