diff --git a/pythainlp/tokenize/newmm.py b/pythainlp/tokenize/newmm.py
index 708c5efdd..e19272989 100644
--- a/pythainlp/tokenize/newmm.py
+++ b/pythainlp/tokenize/newmm.py
@@ -36,12 +36,15 @@
 from pythainlp.tokenize.tcc_p import tcc_pos
 
 # match non-Thai tokens
+# `|` is used as like "early return",
+# which divides "abc123" to "abc", "123" for example.
 _PAT_NONTHAI = re.compile(
-    r"""(?x)
+r"""(?x)
 [-a-zA-Z]+|        # Latin characters
 \d+([,\.]\d+)*|    # numbers
 [ \t]+|            # spaces
-\r?\n              # newlines
+\r?\n|             # newlines
+[^\u0E00-\u0E7F \t\r\n]+  # other non-Thai characters, and stops matching until space/newline
 """
 )
 
diff --git a/tests/test_tokenize.py b/tests/test_tokenize.py
index c224a675c..1537b62c9 100644
--- a/tests/test_tokenize.py
+++ b/tests/test_tokenize.py
@@ -653,6 +653,15 @@ def test_newmm(self):
                 keep_whitespace=False,
             )
         )
+        self.assertEqual(
+            word_tokenize("(คนไม่เอา)", engine="newmm"), ['(', 'คน', 'ไม่', 'เอา', ')']
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(
+            word_tokenize("กม/ชม", engine="newmm"), ['กม', '/', 'ชม']
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(
+            word_tokenize("สีหน้า(รถ)", engine="newmm"), ['สีหน้า', '(', 'รถ', ')']
+        )
 
     def test_newmm_longtext(self):
         self.assertIsInstance(