diff --git a/src/client/src/tscUtil.c b/src/client/src/tscUtil.c
index b42724a2ec3b01be71b94b06f7e2ef7dbd8b9887..173db05e10a53316566db4edb661c4466cfc5f2f 100644
--- a/src/client/src/tscUtil.c
+++ b/src/client/src/tscUtil.c
@@ -748,6 +748,37 @@ typedef struct SJoinOperatorInfo {
   SRspResultInfo resultInfo;  // todo refactor, add this info for each operator
 } SJoinOperatorInfo;
 
+static void converNcharFilterColumn(SSingleColumnFilterInfo* pFilterInfo, int32_t numOfFilterCols, int32_t rows, bool *gotNchar) {
+  for (int32_t i = 0; i < numOfFilterCols; ++i) {
+    if (pFilterInfo[i].info.type == TSDB_DATA_TYPE_NCHAR) {
+      pFilterInfo[i].pData2 = pFilterInfo[i].pData;
+      pFilterInfo[i].pData = malloc(rows * pFilterInfo[i].info.bytes);
+      int32_t bufSize = pFilterInfo[i].info.bytes - VARSTR_HEADER_SIZE;
+      for (int32_t j = 0; j < rows; ++j) {
+        char* dst = (char *)pFilterInfo[i].pData + j * pFilterInfo[i].info.bytes;
+        char* src = (char *)pFilterInfo[i].pData2 + j * pFilterInfo[i].info.bytes;
+        int32_t len = 0;
+        taosMbsToUcs4(varDataVal(src), varDataLen(src), varDataVal(dst), bufSize, &len);
+        varDataLen(dst) = len;
+      }
+      *gotNchar = true;
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+static void freeNcharFilterColumn(SSingleColumnFilterInfo* pFilterInfo, int32_t numOfFilterCols) {
+  for (int32_t i = 0; i < numOfFilterCols; ++i) {
+    if (pFilterInfo[i].info.type == TSDB_DATA_TYPE_NCHAR) {
+      if (pFilterInfo[i].pData2) {
+        tfree(pFilterInfo[i].pData);
+        pFilterInfo[i].pData = pFilterInfo[i].pData2;
+        pFilterInfo[i].pData2 = NULL;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+
 static void doSetupSDataBlock(SSqlRes* pRes, SSDataBlock* pBlock, SSingleColumnFilterInfo* pFilterInfo, int32_t numOfFilterCols) {
   int32_t offset = 0;
   char* pData = pRes->data;
@@ -766,8 +797,13 @@ static void doSetupSDataBlock(SSqlRes* pRes, SSDataBlock* pBlock, SSingleColumnF
   // filter data if needed
   if (numOfFilterCols > 0) {
     doSetFilterColumnInfo(pFilterInfo, numOfFilterCols, pBlock);
+    bool gotNchar = false;
+    converNcharFilterColumn(pFilterInfo, numOfFilterCols, pBlock->info.rows, &gotNchar);
     int8_t* p = calloc(pBlock->info.rows, sizeof(int8_t));
     bool all = doFilterDataBlock(pFilterInfo, numOfFilterCols, pBlock->info.rows, p);
+    if (gotNchar) {
+      freeNcharFilterColumn(pFilterInfo, numOfFilterCols);
+    }
     if (!all) {
       doCompactSDataBlock(pBlock, pBlock->info.rows, p);
     }
diff --git a/src/query/inc/qExecutor.h b/src/query/inc/qExecutor.h
index bc934647ec4827faea4814dfbfb46acb34033668..1d26d292fafa3c2947279173221b9f461a11edbf 100644
--- a/src/query/inc/qExecutor.h
+++ b/src/query/inc/qExecutor.h
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ typedef struct SColumnFilterElem {
 
 typedef struct SSingleColumnFilterInfo {
   void*              pData;
+  void*              pData2;  //used for nchar column
   int32_t            numOfFilters;
   SColumnInfo        info;
   SColumnFilterElem* pFilters;