# Chinese search doesn't work to some words
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/chinese-search-doesnt-work-to-some-words/103815
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [12월 9, 2018, 10:05오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chinese-search-doesnt-work-to-some-words/103815 "2018-12-09T10:05:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@Jacky](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jacky)
#### Post date: [12월 9, 2018, 10:05오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chinese-search-doesnt-work-to-some-words/103815/1 "2018-12-09T10:05:00Z")
Hi all,
I find that some Chinese words cannot be searched. I don’t know why. Any idea for that?
The screenshot below comes from this site. You can view it from [https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse/6780?source\_topic\_id=13287](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse/6780?source_topic_id=13287)
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [12월 11, 2018, 11:53오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chinese-search-doesnt-work-to-some-words/103815/2 "2018-12-11T23:53:33Z")
You have to enable `search tokenize chinese japanese korean` in site settings and rebuild the search index by editing the post or something.
This should be enabled by default for you in site settings if you have Chinese locale selected.
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### Author:  [@Jacky](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jacky)
#### Post date: [12월 12, 2018, 9:18오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chinese-search-doesnt-work-to-some-words/103815/3 "2018-12-12T09:18:58Z")
Thanks Sam. I’m not sure how to rebuild the search index, I will do some research on it. Thanks
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [12월 12, 2018, 9:23오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chinese-search-doesnt-work-to-some-words/103815/4 "2018-12-12T09:23:03Z")
If memory serves:
```
cd /var/discourse
./launcher enter app
rake search:reindex
```
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### Author:  [@Jacky](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jacky)
#### Post date: [12월 12, 2018, 9:25오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chinese-search-doesnt-work-to-some-words/103815/5 "2018-12-12T09:25:09Z")
Thanks Stephen. Do you know how to do it under development environment?
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [12월 12, 2018, 9:29오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chinese-search-doesnt-work-to-some-words/103815/6 "2018-12-12T09:29:25Z")
You can run rake from `./bin/docker`
I can’t be more specific without details of your dev environment install.
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### Author:  [@Jacky](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jacky)
#### Post date: [12월 12, 2018, 12:37오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chinese-search-doesnt-work-to-some-words/103815/7 "2018-12-12T12:37:56Z")
It still doesn’t work on my dirsource.
I find an example from this site:
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse/6780?source\_topic\_id=13287](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse/6780?source_topic_id=13287)
You can find some Chinese words from the topic above, but if you search some of these words, it shows no results.
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [12월 12, 2018, 8:38오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chinese-search-doesnt-work-to-some-words/103815/8 "2018-12-12T20:38:49Z")
Going by the text as it appears in the screen captures, it looks like missed
> [@sam](#):
>
> have Chinese locale selected.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [12월 12, 2018, 9:12오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chinese-search-doesnt-work-to-some-words/103815/9 "2018-12-12T21:12:29Z")
@fantasticfears any tips here? Is the segmenter broken here?
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### Author:  [@Jacky](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jacky)
#### Post date: [12월 13, 2018, 12:59오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chinese-search-doesnt-work-to-some-words/103815/10 "2018-12-13T00:59:58Z")
This screen capture can be clearer.
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### Author:  [@Jacky](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jacky)
#### Post date: [12월 13, 2018, 11:24오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chinese-search-doesnt-work-to-some-words/103815/11 "2018-12-13T11:24:12Z")
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### Author:  [@fantasticfears](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fantasticfears)
#### Post date: [12월 13, 2018, 9:29오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chinese-search-doesnt-work-to-some-words/103815/12 "2018-12-13T21:29:54Z")
Do you enable the `search tokenize chinese japanese korean`? Or do you set `default locale` as `zh_CN`? Meta probably didn’t enable those settings. Mind trying something here? [https://master1.discoursecn.org/](https://master1.discoursecn.org/)
@sam Segmenter works for me. It should be something else.
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### Author:  [@Jacky](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jacky)
#### Post date: [12월 13, 2018, 10:11오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chinese-search-doesnt-work-to-some-words/103815/13 "2018-12-13T22:11:30Z")
I tried some words on your site. It still doesn’t work
It can be seen from the screenshot below that the provided results do not include the current topic that I was viewing, but it should include. It cannot cover all correct results.
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### Author:  [@fantasticfears](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fantasticfears)
#### Post date: [12월 13, 2018, 11:22오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chinese-search-doesnt-work-to-some-words/103815/14 "2018-12-13T23:22:10Z")
I’m not really sure which is broken since both text come back with expected segmentation.
Can you update `cppjieba_rb` to 0.3.3? @sam
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### Author:  [@Jacky](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jacky)
#### Post date: [12월 14, 2018, 11:43오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chinese-search-doesnt-work-to-some-words/103815/16 "2018-12-14T11:43:41Z")
I am pasting some missed words here. If you copy them and search for them in Discourse, you will find that the expected search results are missing.
For this site: (the results should include this page: [https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse/6780?source\_topic\_id=13287](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse/6780?source_topic_id=13287))
Guide Release
For Erick Guan’s site ([https://master1.discoursecn.org/](https://master1.discoursecn.org/))
Restart Server (search results should include: [https://meta.discoursecn.org/t/topic/2510](https://meta.discoursecn.org/t/topic/2510))
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [10월 31, 2021, 3:47오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chinese-search-doesnt-work-to-some-words/103815/17 "2021-10-31T03:47:33Z")