The invention discloses an electronic remote transmission water meter counter which comprises a character wheel box, wherein a box body of the character wheel box is provided with an upper chamber and a lower chamber; the upper chamber is provided with a circuit board, and the lower chamber is provided with a character wheel and a shifting gear; the wheel body center of the character wheel is provided with a center wheel hole; drive gears are respectively arranged on end surfaces at both sides of the wheel body; only a sector transmitting groove is arranged on the wheel body of the character wheel and is coaxial with the center wheel hole of the wheel body; the wheel body is made of lightproof materials; an outward or inward protrusion is arranged on the chamber wall at the top end of thelower chamber; and the protrusion is in a strip shape, and the top surface of the protrusion in the length direction is a plane or a cambered surface. In the invention, by adopting an area array light source, the rotation of the character wheel causes different shielding positions of the transmitting groove, so that a photoelectric sensor corresponds to different positions on the character wheel of the counter, thereby recognizing different character wheel indications and further carrying out effective and accurate data output. Because the protrusion has the function of a magnifier, the watermeter counter is convenient for reading.