diff --git a/openviking/storage/viking_fs.py b/openviking/storage/viking_fs.py
index 983a19b78a..b0082ac3e2 100644
--- a/openviking/storage/viking_fs.py
+++ b/openviking/storage/viking_fs.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 import os
 import re
 import time
+import unicodedata
 from contextlib import contextmanager
 from dataclasses import dataclass, field
 from datetime import datetime, timezone
@@ -87,6 +88,25 @@ def _ensure_non_empty_search_query(query: str) -> None:
         raise InvalidArgumentError("Search query must not be empty.")
 
 
+def _normalize_search_query(query: str) -> str:
+    """Normalize a semantic search query for consistent embedding/tokenization.
+
+    NFKC + casefold + whitespace collapse so that colloquial or CJK
+    full/half-width variants of the same query embed and tokenize
+    consistently with indexed content (e.g. "ＯｐｅｎＶｉｋｉｎｇ" / "openvaking"
+    case-fold to a form matching "OpenViking"). Idempotent and only widens
+    recall — does not alter semantics for already-normalized ASCII.
+
+    Applied only to the semantic find/search path, NOT to grep (whose
+    pattern is a regular expression; casefold/NFKC would corrupt explicit
+    character classes and the ``case_insensitive`` flag already covers
+    case folding there).
+    """
+    if not query:
+        return query
+    return re.sub(r"\s+", " ", unicodedata.normalize("NFKC", query).casefold()).strip()
+
+
 def _is_directory_not_empty_error(message: str) -> bool:
     """Check if an error message indicates a directory not empty error.
 
@@ -1925,6 +1945,7 @@ async def find(
             FindResult
         """
         _ensure_non_empty_search_query(query)
+        query = _normalize_search_query(query)
         telemetry = get_current_telemetry()
         from openviking.retrieve.hierarchical_retriever import HierarchicalRetriever
         from openviking_cli.retrieve import (
@@ -2017,6 +2038,7 @@ async def search(
             FindResult
         """
         _ensure_non_empty_search_query(query)
+        query = _normalize_search_query(query)
         telemetry = get_current_telemetry()
         from openviking.retrieve.hierarchical_retriever import HierarchicalRetriever
         from openviking.retrieve.intent_analyzer import IntentAnalyzer
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_search_query_normalization.py b/tests/unit/test_search_query_normalization.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e11816e882
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/unit/test_search_query_normalization.py
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2026 Beijing Volcano Engine Technology Co., Ltd.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0
+
+"""Tests for semantic search query normalization."""
+
+from openviking.storage.viking_fs import _normalize_search_query
+
+
+def test_normalize_cjk_fullwidth_to_halfwidth():
+    # NFKC folds full-width Latin letters/digits to ASCII
+    assert _normalize_search_query("ＯｐｅｎＶｉｋｉｎｇ") == "openviking"
+
+
+def test_normalize_casefold_mixed_case():
+    # casefold is stronger than lower() — handles ß, etc.
+    assert _normalize_search_query("OpenViking") == "openviking"
+    assert _normalize_search_query("OpenVAKING") == "openvaking"
+
+
+def test_normalize_collapses_whitespace():
+    assert _normalize_search_query("Harms  agent") == "harms agent"
+    assert _normalize_search_query("  hello   world  ") == "hello world"
+
+
+def test_normalize_strips_leading_trailing_whitespace():
+    assert _normalize_search_query("\tquery\n") == "query"
+
+
+def test_normalize_empty_query_returns_empty():
+    assert _normalize_search_query("") == ""
+
+
+def test_normalize_none_query_passthrough():
+    # None is falsy; helper returns it unchanged (guard: `if not query`)
+    assert _normalize_search_query(None) is None
+
+
+def test_normalize_idempotent():
+    once = _normalize_search_query("ＯｐｅｎＶｉｋｉｎｇ  Ａｇｅｎｔ")
+    twice = _normalize_search_query(once)
+    assert once == twice == "openviking agent"