# Chinese searching is broken

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/chinese-searching-is-broken/51443>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [2016年十月12日 03:00 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chinese-searching-is-broken/51443 "2016-10-12T03:00:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mittineague](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mittineague/32/114259_2.png) [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)\
**Post date:** [2016年十月12日 03:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/chinese-searching-is-broken/51443/2 "2016-10-12T03:31:53Z")

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Are your problems similar to this topic, or is search completely broken?

> [@Searching Chinese terms in middle of sentence](https://meta.discourse.org/t/searching-chinese-terms-in-middle-of-sentence/35440):
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> When search using for Chinese keywords, any terms in the middle of the sentence do not turn up in search results. Searching on the first few words of a sentence however works. Here’s a topic: Searching for terms in middle of sentence doesn’t work: [image] Including the first few words in the beginning of the sentence works: This phenomenon is mentioned in the first half of this thread: [https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-t-search-with-chinese-keywords/4500/10](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-t-search-with-chinese-keywords/4500/10) It suggests …

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