You need 4 bytes for characters outside the BMP, which includes many emoji and a bunch of less-common writing characters too.
@@ -56,5 +56,5 @@ limit of `32766`.
NOTE: The value for `ignore_above` is the _character count_, but Lucene counts
bytes. If you use UTF-8 text with many non-ASCII characters, you may want to
-set the limit to `32766 / 3 = 10922` since UTF-8 characters may occupy at most
-3 bytes.
+set the limit to `32766 / 4 = 8191` since UTF-8 characters may occupy at most
+4 bytes.