字数 (zì shǔ) — number of characters, word count (in written text)

Definition

Examples

• 这篇文章的字数超过了两千。
  Zhè piān wén zhāng de zì shǔ chāo guò le liǎng qiān.
  This article's character count exceeds two thousand.
• 老师要求作文字数在八百字左右。
  Lǎo shī yāo qiú zuò wén zì shǔ zài bā bǎi zì zuǒ yòu.
  The teacher requires the composition's word count to be around eight hundred characters.
• 我们得控制一下字数，别写太多。
  Wǒ men dé kòng zhì yí xià zì shǔ, bié xiě tài duō.
  We need to control the word count a bit and not write too much.