# How to define a Chinese Term of 2 double-byte characters with a space between them?

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**Created:** [October 29, 2020, 9:33am UTC](https://forum.xbench.net/t/how-to-define-a-chinese-term-of-2-double-byte-characters-with-a-space-between-them/684 "2020-10-29T09:33:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![x69toki](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.xbench.net/x69toki/32/249_2.png) [@x69toki](https://forum.xbench.net/u/x69toki)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 9:33am UTC](https://forum.xbench.net/t/how-to-define-a-chinese-term-of-2-double-byte-characters-with-a-space-between-them/684/1 "2020-10-29T09:33:24Z")

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Hi

Could anyone help deal me with this problem, please?

I need a filter to search a Chinese Term of 2 double-byte characters with a space between them.

It looks like this one:

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The term is “ **報 告** ” with a space between these two Chinese double-byte characters.

And my expression is:

Source:

> [報][:space:][告]

Target:

> -“review”

The RegEx and Power-Search are both ON.

Unfortunately, such an expression can NOT detect the source correctly. ☹

Is it possible for Xbench to find out the Chinese Term (2 double-byte characters) with a space between them?

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**Author:** ![omartin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.xbench.net/omartin/32/82_2.png) [@omartin](https://forum.xbench.net/u/omartin)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2020, 9:52am UTC](https://forum.xbench.net/t/how-to-define-a-chinese-term-of-2-double-byte-characters-with-a-space-between-them/684/2 "2020-10-29T09:52:10Z")

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The following search should find any space between two Chinese characters:

Source: `"[\x4E00-\x9FFF\x3400-\x4DBF\x20000-\x2A6DF\x2A700-\x2B73F\x2B740-\x2B81F\x2B820-\x2CEAF\x2CEB0-\x2EBEF\x30000-\x3134F\xF900-\xFAFF\x2F800-\x2FA1F][:space:][\x4E00-\x9FFF\x3400-\x4DBF\x20000-\x2A6DF\x2A700-\x2B73F\x2B740-\x2B81F\x2B820-\x2CEAF\x2CEB0-\x2EBEF\x30000-\x3134F\xF900-\xFAFF\x2F800-\x2FA1F]"`  
Search mode: Regular Expressions  
PowerSearch: On.

To find all instances of this specific term, try the following one:

Source: `"報[:space:]告"`  
Target: `-"review"`  
Search mode: Regular Expressions  
PowerSearch: On.

Firstly, I would try to search only the source to detect segments containing any space between these Chinese chars.

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**Author:** ![x69toki](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/forum.xbench.net/x69toki/32/249_2.png) [@x69toki](https://forum.xbench.net/u/x69toki)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2020, 3:50am UTC](https://forum.xbench.net/t/how-to-define-a-chinese-term-of-2-double-byte-characters-with-a-space-between-them/684/3 "2020-11-02T03:50:46Z")

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Dear Sir,

It works perfectly, I appreciate your kindly helping so much!!! 🙂