Hindi Word Counter

• Words are separated by spaces. Matras (vowel signs), the virama (्), nukta, anusvara (ं) and chandrabindu (ँ) belong to the word they are written in, so a conjunct-heavy word such as विद्यार्थी is still one word.
• Characters are counted one per Unicode character, the way websites and forms usually enforce a limit. A conjunct is several characters: क्ष is क, the virama and ष, so it counts as three.
• Letters, in the character breakdown, counts only the consonants and independent vowels. Vowel signs and the virama are marks rather than letters, so they are left out. That is why नमस्ते has six characters but four letters.
• Sentences end at the purna viram (।), the double danda (॥), a question mark, an exclamation mark, a full stop or a line break.

In the last row the double danda stands on its own between spaces. It ends the first sentence but is not counted as a word, so the line has three words and two sentences.

Because one syllable can take three or four Unicode characters, Hindi text uses up a character limit faster than its length on screen suggests. If a form or platform caps characters, check against the Characters figure here rather than counting what you see.

School and university assignments in Hindi are usually set in words, and the word count here uses the same space-based rule as Microsoft Word and Google Docs, so the totals should match for ordinary prose. Translators quoting by the word should agree which language the count refers to, as the Hindi and English versions of the same text rarely have the same number of words.