What is the Urdu full stop?

Urdu ends a sentence with the khari pai ۔ (U+06D4), a vertical bar rather than a dot. The tool treats this as the primary sentence terminator, alongside the period for digitised text that uses the ASCII full stop.

Which other marks end an Urdu sentence?

Questions use the Arabic question mark ؟ (U+061F), exclamations use !, and a thought may trail off with an ellipsis (…). Any run of these marks ends a single sentence.

Are the Urdu comma and semicolon counted as sentence breaks?

No. The Urdu comma ، (U+060C) and semicolon ؛ (U+061B) separate clauses inside a sentence. The tool ignores them when counting sentences so longer clauses are not over-split.

Why does my count differ from a naive period-split?

Most Urdu text uses the khari pai ۔ rather than a dot, so a tool that only splits on the ASCII period would report one giant sentence. This counter recognises the real Urdu terminators.

Is my text uploaded anywhere?

No. All counting runs locally in your browser, so nothing you paste is sent to a server. It is safe for private or unpublished Urdu text.

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Urdu does not end sentences with a dot. Its full stop is the khari pai ۔ (U+06D4), a short vertical bar, and its question mark is the mirrored Arabic ؟ (U+061F). A counter that only looks for the ASCII period would treat an entire Urdu paragraph as a single sentence. This tool recognises the genuine Urdu terminators.

How it works

The text is split on runs of sentence-ending marks: the Urdu full stop ۔, the Arabic question mark ؟, the exclamation mark !, the ASCII period . (for digitised text), and the ellipsis …. Consecutive terminators collapse into one break.

Each segment that still contains Urdu or alphanumeric content counts as one sentence. The Urdu comma ، (U+060C) and the Urdu semicolon ؛ (U+061B) are not split on — they mark clause boundaries inside a sentence.

Example

The passage:

اردو ایک خوبصورت زبان ہے۔ کیا آپ اردو بولتے ہیں؟

is two sentences: a statement closed by the khari pai ۔ and a question closed by the Arabic question mark ؟. A comma inside either clause would not raise the count.

Notes

The khari pai ۔ is the default Urdu sentence ending — not the dot.
Clause separators ، and ؛ are ignored on purpose.
The average-words-per-sentence figure is a quick readability gauge.
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