How Count Korean Word Block using Unix/Linux Commands?

Question

Korean consists of word blocks (e.g., 가, 나, 다 라, etc.). I need a way to count these word blocks. For instance, the word 바다 (sea) should return 2. but

wc -w will return 1

wc -c will return 7

So these options won't work for me. I would appreciate your help.

Answer 1

바다 encoded as UTF-8 is 6 bytes long. If you want to count characters, use wc -m:

$ printf "바다" | wc -c
       6
$ printf "바다" | wc -m
       2