diff --git a/src/Nest/Analysis/Tokenizers/CharGroupTokenizer.cs b/src/Nest/Analysis/Tokenizers/CharGroupTokenizer.cs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3996824fc8a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Nest/Analysis/Tokenizers/CharGroupTokenizer.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using Newtonsoft.Json;
+
+namespace Nest
+{
+	/// <summary>
+	/// A tokenizer that breaks text into terms whenever it encounters a character which is in a defined set. It is mostly useful
+	/// for cases where a simple custom tokenization is desired, and the overhead of use of <see cref="PatternTokenizer"/> is not acceptable.
+	/// </summary>
+	public interface ICharGroupTokenizer : ITokenizer
+	{
+		/// <summary>
+		/// A list containing a list of characters to tokenize the string on. Whenever a character from this list is encountered, a
+		/// new token is started. This accepts either single characters like eg. -, or character groups: whitespace, letter, digit,
+		/// punctuation, symbol.
+		/// </summary>
+		[JsonProperty("tokenize_on_chars")]
+		IEnumerable<string> TokenizeOnCharacters { get; set; }
+	}
+
+	/// <inheritdoc cref="ICharGroupTokenizer"/>
+	public class CharGroupTokenizer : TokenizerBase, ICharGroupTokenizer
+    {
+	    internal const string TokenizerType = "char_group";
+
+		public CharGroupTokenizer() => this.Type = TokenizerType;
+
+	    /// <inheritdoc cref="ICharGroupTokenizer.TokenizeOnCharacters"/>
+		public IEnumerable<string> TokenizeOnCharacters { get; set; }
+    }
+
+	/// <inheritdoc cref="ICharGroupTokenizer"/>
+	public class CharGroupTokenizerDescriptor
+		: TokenizerDescriptorBase<CharGroupTokenizerDescriptor, ICharGroupTokenizer>, ICharGroupTokenizer
+	{
+		protected override string Type => CharGroupTokenizer.TokenizerType;
+
+		IEnumerable<string> ICharGroupTokenizer.TokenizeOnCharacters { get; set; }
+
+	    /// <inheritdoc cref="ICharGroupTokenizer.TokenizeOnCharacters"/>
+		public CharGroupTokenizerDescriptor TokenizeOnCharacters(params string[] characters) =>
+		    Assign(a => a.TokenizeOnCharacters = characters);
+
+	    /// <inheritdoc cref="ICharGroupTokenizer.TokenizeOnCharacters"/>
+		public CharGroupTokenizerDescriptor TokenizeOnCharacters(IEnumerable<string> characters) =>
+		    Assign(a => a.TokenizeOnCharacters = characters);
+	}
+}
diff --git a/src/Nest/Analysis/Tokenizers/Tokenizers.cs b/src/Nest/Analysis/Tokenizers/Tokenizers.cs
index 78536994658..bc23e2d5f4c 100644
--- a/src/Nest/Analysis/Tokenizers/Tokenizers.cs
+++ b/src/Nest/Analysis/Tokenizers/Tokenizers.cs
@@ -112,5 +112,9 @@ public TokenizersDescriptor Kuromoji(string name, Func<KuromojiTokenizerDescript
 		/// </summary>
 		public TokenizersDescriptor Icu(string name, Func<IcuTokenizerDescriptor, IIcuTokenizer> selector) =>
 			Assign(name, selector?.Invoke(new IcuTokenizerDescriptor()));
+
+	    /// <inheritdoc cref="ICharGroupTokenizer.TokenizeOnCharacters"/>>
+		public TokenizersDescriptor CharGroup(string name, Func<CharGroupTokenizerDescriptor, ICharGroupTokenizer> selector) =>
+			Assign(name, selector?.Invoke(new CharGroupTokenizerDescriptor()));
 	}
 }
diff --git a/src/Nest/Indices/Analyze/AnalyzeTokenizersDescriptor.cs b/src/Nest/Indices/Analyze/AnalyzeTokenizersDescriptor.cs
index bdc38962321..edb9133e86c 100644
--- a/src/Nest/Indices/Analyze/AnalyzeTokenizersDescriptor.cs
+++ b/src/Nest/Indices/Analyze/AnalyzeTokenizersDescriptor.cs
@@ -91,5 +91,8 @@ public ITokenizer Kuromoji(Func<KuromojiTokenizerDescriptor, IKuromojiTokenizer>
 		/// </summary>
 		public ITokenizer Icu(Func<IcuTokenizerDescriptor, IIcuTokenizer> selector) =>
 			(selector?.Invoke(new IcuTokenizerDescriptor()));
+
+	    /// <inheritdoc cref="ICharGroupTokenizer.TokenizeOnCharacters"/>>
+		public ITokenizer CharGroup(Func<CharGroupTokenizerDescriptor, ICharGroupTokenizer> selector) => selector?.Invoke(new CharGroupTokenizerDescriptor());
 	}
 }
diff --git a/src/Tests/Tests/Analysis/Tokenizers/TokenizerTests.cs b/src/Tests/Tests/Analysis/Tokenizers/TokenizerTests.cs
index a36399ad2a3..8d27bff379d 100644
--- a/src/Tests/Tests/Analysis/Tokenizers/TokenizerTests.cs
+++ b/src/Tests/Tests/Analysis/Tokenizers/TokenizerTests.cs
@@ -203,5 +203,25 @@ public class StandardTests : TokenizerAssertionBase<StandardTests>
 
 			public override object Json => new {type = "standard"};
 		}
+    
+		public class CharGroupTests : TokenizerAssertionBase<CharGroupTests>
+		{
+			private readonly string[] _chars = {"whitespace", "-", "\n"};
+			public override string Name => "uax";
+			public override ITokenizer Initializer => new CharGroupTokenizer
+			{
+				TokenizeOnCharacters = _chars
+			};
+
+			public override FuncTokenizer Fluent => (n, t) => t.CharGroup(n, e => e
+				.TokenizeOnCharacters(_chars)
+			);
+
+			public override object Json => new
+			{
+				tokenize_on_chars = _chars,
+				type = "char_group"
+			};
+		}
 	}
 }