Jieba

The jieba tokenizer processes Chinese text by breaking it down into its component words.

Configuration

Milvus supports two configuration approaches for the jieba tokenizer: a simple configuration and a custom configuration.

Simple configuration

With the simple configuration, you only need to set the tokenizer to "jieba". For example:

# Simple configuration: only specifying the tokenizer name
analyzer_params = {
    "tokenizer": "jieba",  # Use the default settings: dict=["_default_"], mode="search", hmm=true
}

Map<String, Object> analyzerParams = new HashMap<>();
analyzerParams.put("tokenizer", "jieba");

const analyzer_params = {
    "tokenizer": "jieba",
};

analyzerParams = map[string]any{"tokenizer": "jieba"}

# restful
analyzerParams='{
  "tokenizer": "jieba"
}'

This simple configuration is equivalent to the following custom configuration:

# Custom configuration equivalent to the simple configuration above
analyzer_params = {
    "type": "jieba",          # Tokenizer type, fixed as "jieba"
    "dict": ["_default_"],     # Use the default dictionary
    "mode": "search",          # Use search mode for improved recall (see mode details below)
    "hmm": true                # Enable HMM for probabilistic segmentation
}

Map<String, Object> analyzerParams = new HashMap<>();
analyzerParams.put("type", "jieba");
analyzerParams.put("dict", Collections.singletonList("_default_"));
analyzerParams.put("mode", "search");
analyzerParams.put("hmm", true);

// javascript

analyzerParams = map[string]any{"type": "jieba", "dict": []any{"_default_"}, "mode": "search", "hmm": true}

# restful

For details on parameters, refer to Custom configuration.

Custom configuration

For more control, you can provide a custom configuration that allows you to specify a custom dictionary, select the segmentation mode, and enable or disable the Hidden Markov Model (HMM). For example:

# Custom configuration with user-defined settings
analyzer_params = {
    "tokenizer": {
        "type": "jieba",           # Fixed tokenizer type
        "dict": ["customDictionary"],  # Custom dictionary list; replace with your own terms
        "mode": "exact",           # Use exact mode (non-overlapping tokens)
        "hmm": false               # Disable HMM; unmatched text will be split into individual characters
    }
}

Map<String, Object> analyzerParams = new HashMap<>();
analyzerParams.put("type", "jieba");
analyzerParams.put("dict", Collections.singletonList("customDictionary"));
analyzerParams.put("mode", "exact");
analyzerParams.put("hmm", false);

// javascript

analyzerParams = map[string]any{"type": "jieba", "dict": []any{"customDictionary"}, "mode": "exact", "hmm": false}

# restful

Parameter	Description	Default Value
type	The type of tokenizer. This is fixed to "jieba".	"jieba"
dict	A list of dictionaries that the analyzer will load as its vocabulary source. Built-in options: "_default_": Loads the engine's built‑in Simplified‑Chinese dictionary. For details, refer to dict.txt. "_extend_default_": Loads everything in "_default_" plus an additional Traditional‑Chinese supplement. For details, refer to dict.txt.big. You can also mix the built‑in dictionary with any number of custom dictionaries. Example: ["_default_", "结巴分词器"].	["_default_"]
mode	The segmentation mode. Possible values: "exact": Tries to segment the sentence in the most precise manner, making it ideal for text analysis. "search": Builds on exact mode by further breaking down long words to improve recall, making it suitable for search engine tokenization. For more information, refer to Jieba GitHub Project.	"search"
hmm	A boolean flag indicating whether to enable the Hidden Markov Model (HMM) for probabilistic segmentation of words not found in the dictionary.	true

After defining analyzer_params, you can apply them to a VARCHAR field when defining a collection schema. This allows Milvus to process the text in that field using the specified analyzer for efficient tokenization and filtering. For details, refer to Example use.

Examples

Before applying the analyzer configuration to your collection schema, verify its behavior using the run_analyzer method.

Analyzer configuration

analyzer_params = {
    "tokenizer": {
        "type": "jieba",
        "dict": ["结巴分词器"],
        "mode": "exact",
        "hmm": False
    }
}

Map<String, Object> analyzerParams = new HashMap<>();
analyzerParams.put("type", "jieba");
analyzerParams.put("dict", Collections.singletonList("结巴分词器"));
analyzerParams.put("mode", "exact");
analyzerParams.put("hmm", false);

// javascript

analyzerParams = map[string]any{"type": "jieba", "dict": []any{"结巴分词器"}, "mode": "exact", "hmm": false}

# restful

Verification using run_analyzer

# Sample text to analyze
sample_text = "milvus结巴分词器中文测试"

# Run the standard analyzer with the defined configuration
result = MilvusClient.run_analyzer(sample_text, analyzer_params)
print(result)

// java

// javascript

// go

# restful

Expected output

['milvus', '结巴分词器', '中', '文', '测', '试']