diff --git a/split2flac b/split2flac
index 2cbb71a..827f26b 100755
--- a/split2flac
+++ b/split2flac
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ VORBISCOMMENT="vorbiscomment -R -a"
 command -v mid3v2 >/dev/null && ID3TAG="mid3v2" || ID3TAG="id3tag -2"
 MP4TAGS="mp4tags"
 GETTAG="cueprint -n 1 -t"
-VALIDATE="sed s/[^][[:space:][:alnum:]&_#,.'\"\(\)!-]//g"
+VALIDATE="sed s/[^][[:space:][:alnum:][\u4e00-\u9fa5]&_#,.'\"\(\)!-]//g"
 
 # check & print output format
 msg_format="${cG}Output format :$cZ"