# \[Question\] How to support keyword search in Chinese

**URL:** <https://forum.weaviate.io/t/question-how-to-support-keyword-search-in-chinese/7649>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** technical\
**Created:** [November 18, 2024, 1:28pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/question-how-to-support-keyword-search-in-chinese/7649 "2024-11-18T13:28:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![lei\_shi](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/lei_shi/32/2896_2.png) [@lei\_shi](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/lei_shi)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 1:28pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/question-how-to-support-keyword-search-in-chinese/7649/1 "2024-11-18T13:28:59Z")

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How to support keyword search in Chinese

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**Author:** ![DudaNogueira](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/dudanogueira/32/7846_2.png) [@DudaNogueira](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/DudaNogueira)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2024, 1:30pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/question-how-to-support-keyword-search-in-chinese/7649/2 "2024-11-18T13:30:21Z")

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hi @lei_shi !!

Welcome to our community 🤗

You need to enable the GSE tokenization by setting an environment variable:

Check here in our doc: [Collection definition | Weaviate](https://weaviate.io/developers/weaviate/config-refs/schema#gse-and-trigram-tokenization-methods)