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template: overrides/blog.html
title: Chinese search support
description: >
Insiders adds Chinese language support for the built-in search plugin a
feature that has been requested many times
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# Chinese search support 中文搜索​支持
__Insiders adds experimental Chinese language support for the [built-in search
plugin] a feature that has been requested for a long time given the large
number of Chinese users.__
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![@squidfunk][@squidfunk avatar]
<span>__Martin Donath__ · @squidfunk</span>
<span>
:octicons-calendar-24: May 5, 2022 ·
:octicons-clock-24: 5 min read ·
[:octicons-tag-24: 8.2.13+insiders-4.14.0][insiders-4.14.0]
</span>
</aside>
[built-in search plugin]: ../../setup/setting-up-site-search.md#built-in-search-plugin
[@squidfunk avatar]: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/932156
[insiders-4.14.0]: ../../insiders/changelog.md#4.14.0
---
After the United States and Germany, the third-largest country of origin of
Material for MkDocs users is China. For a long time, the built-in search plugin
didn't allow for proper segmentation of Chinese characters, mainly due to
missing support in [lunr-languages] which is used for search tokenization and
stemming. The latest Insiders release adds long-awaited Chinese language support
for the built-in search plugin, something that has been requested by many users.
_Material for MkDocs終於支持中文文本正確分割並且容易找到。_
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_This article explains how to set up Chinese language support for the built-in
search plugin in a few minutes._
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[lunr-languages]: https://github.com/MihaiValentin/lunr-languages
## Configuration
Chinese language support for Material for MkDocs is provided by [jieba], an
excellent Chinese text segmentation library. If [jieba] is installed, the
built-in search plugin automatically detects Chinese characters and runs them
through the segmenter. You can install [jieba] with:
```
pip install jieba
```
The next step is only required if you specified the [separator] configuration
in `mkdocs.yml`. Text is segmented with [zero-width whitespace] characters, so
it renders exactly the same in the search modal. Adjust `mkdocs.yml` so that
the [separator] includes the `\u200b` character:
``` yaml
plugins:
- search:
separator: '[\\s\\u200b\\-]'
```
That's all that is necessary.
## Usage
If you followed the instructions in the configuration guide, Chinese words will
now be tokenized using [jieba]. Try searching for
[:octicons-search-24: 支持][q=支持] to see how it integrates with the
built-in search plugin.
---
Note that this is an experimental feature, and I, @squidfunk, am not
proficient in Chinese (yet?). If you find a bug or think something can be
improved, please [open an issue].
[jieba]: https://pypi.org/project/jieba/
[zero-width whitespace]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_space
[separator]: ../../setup/setting-up-site-search.md#separator
[q=支持]: ?q=支持
[open an issue]: https://github.com/squidfunk/mkdocs-material/issues/new/choose