diff --git a/spacy/zh/__init__.py b/spacy/zh/__init__.py
index edd3337b2..243d8525c 100644
--- a/spacy/zh/__init__.py
+++ b/spacy/zh/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,30 @@
 from ..language import Language
+from ..tokenizer import Tokenizer
+from ..tagger import Tagger
+
+
+class CharacterTokenizer(Tokenizer):
+    def __call__(self, text):
+        return self.tokens_from_list(list(text))
 
 
 class Chinese(Language):
     lang = u'zh'
+
+    def __call__(self, text):
+        doc = self.tokenizer.tokens_from_list(list(text))
+        self.tagger(doc)
+        self.merge_characters(doc)
+        return doc
+
+    def merge_characters(self, doc):
+        start = 0
+        chunks = []
+        for token in doc:
+            if token.tag_ != 'CHAR':
+                chunk = doc[start : token.i + 1]
+                chunks.append(chunk)
+                start = token.i + 1
+        text = doc.text
+        for chunk in chunks:
+            chunk.merge(chunk[-1].tag_, chunk.text, u'')