# V1.7.3 Chinese Search

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/v1-7-3-chinese-search/100430>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 13, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/v1-7-3-chinese-search/100430 "2017-09-13T22:54:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![yosiasz](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/yosiasz/32/22089_2.png) [@yosiasz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/yosiasz)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2017, 10:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/v1-7-3-chinese-search/100430/1 "2017-09-13T22:54:53Z")

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Greetings,

I have inherited an application that uses v1.7.3 elastic search. To enable searching Chinese characters I installed

plugin install elasticsearch/elasticsearch-analysis-smartcn/2.7.0

But when searching for words with 阿你他 it does not return anything. But if I search one character at a time  
阿 or 你 or 他 it works.

Other than installing the plugin is there any other configuration or reindexing I need to do?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![afu2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9bcb4/32.png) [@afu2000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/afu2000)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2017, 7:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/v1-7-3-chinese-search/100430/2 "2017-09-14T07:13:17Z")

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If you trying to search '阿你他' as phrase, then you should use "match\_phrase"  
GET /index/type/\_search  
{"query":  
{"match\_phrase" : {"field": "阿你他"}  
}  
If you simply want to search all document with either character 阿 or 你 or 他  
GET /index/type/\_search  
{"query":  
{"match" : {"field": "阿你他"}  
}

P.S. I use the newest version of ElasticSearch 5.5.2, it work fine for me.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2017, 7:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/v1-7-3-chinese-search/100430/3 "2017-10-12T07:14:24Z")

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