# Special Character Search with kuromoji

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/special-character-search-with-kuromoji/153719
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 24, 2018, 5:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/special-character-search-with-kuromoji/153719 "2018-10-24T05:51:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![Boney\_Jacob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@Boney\_Jacob](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Boney_Jacob)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2018, 5:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/special-character-search-with-kuromoji/153719/1 "2018-10-24T05:51:15Z")

</div>

Hi,

I have an issue with the Japanese analyzer with kuromoji\_tokenizer.  
Elasticsearch version: 6.2.

How can I search special characters in Elasticsearch?

I have tried with escaped special characters but it strips special characters and return the result of remaining things.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2018, 5:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/special-character-search-with-kuromoji/153719/2 "2018-11-21T05:51:16Z")

</div>

This topic was automatically closed 28 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.