Count a character within a string

Give a string, what function can I use to count how many a particular character in the string. For example:
"abc;def;ghi;xyz"
I want to find out how many ";" in this string.
Thank you

And of course, if the researched character is not in the given string, then you'll return null, to return 0, you'll need a NVL.even if it is in the string you might need a nvl in Vamsi Kasina's solution:
SQL> select length (';') - length (replace (';', ';')) cnts
from dual
      CNTS
1 row selected.Better:
SQL> select nvl(length (';'),0) - nvl(length (replace (';', ';')),0) cnts
from dual
      CNTS
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