diff --git a/egs/multi_zh-hans/ASR/zipformer/pretrained.py b/egs/multi_zh-hans/ASR/zipformer/pretrained.py
index c15db11f7..1b53465c0 100755
--- a/egs/multi_zh-hans/ASR/zipformer/pretrained.py
+++ b/egs/multi_zh-hans/ASR/zipformer/pretrained.py
@@ -328,9 +328,14 @@ def main():
     logging.info(msg)
 
     def token_ids_to_words(token_ids: List[int]) -> str:
-        text = ""
+        byte_list = []
         for i in token_ids:
-            text += token_table[i]
+            token = token_table[i]
+            if token.startswith("<0x") and token.endswith(">"):
+                byte_list.append(int(token[3:-1], 16))
+            else:
+                byte_list += list(token.encode("utf-8"))
+        text = bytes(byte_list).decode("utf-8", errors='ignore')
         return text.replace("▁", " ").strip()
 
     if params.method == "fast_beam_search":