diff --git a/hana/lib/HANAService.js b/hana/lib/HANAService.js
index b758de809..fb6c97a13 100644
--- a/hana/lib/HANAService.js
+++ b/hana/lib/HANAService.js
@@ -1028,6 +1028,7 @@ class HANAService extends SQLService {
       Int64: () => `BIGINT`,
       UUID: () => `NVARCHAR(36)`,
       Boolean: () => `NVARCHAR(5)`,
+      String: e => `NVARCHAR(${(e.length || 5000) * 4})`,
       LargeString: () => `NVARCHAR(2147483647)`,
       LargeBinary: () => `NVARCHAR(2147483647)`,
       Binary: () => `NVARCHAR(2147483647)`,
@@ -1041,7 +1042,7 @@ class HANAService extends SQLService {
       // HANA types
       'cds.hana.TINYINT': () => 'INT',
       'cds.hana.REAL': () => 'DECIMAL',
-      'cds.hana.CHAR': e => `NVARCHAR(${e.length || 1})`,
+      'cds.hana.CHAR': e => `NVARCHAR(${(e.length || 1) * 4})`,
       'cds.hana.ST_POINT': () => 'NVARCHAR(2147483647)',
       'cds.hana.ST_GEOMETRY': () => 'NVARCHAR(2147483647)',
     }
diff --git a/test/compliance/resources/db/basic/literals/basic.literals.string.js b/test/compliance/resources/db/basic/literals/basic.literals.string.js
index 227bb933f..4de7f9808 100644
--- a/test/compliance/resources/db/basic/literals/basic.literals.string.js
+++ b/test/compliance/resources/db/basic/literals/basic.literals.string.js
@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ module.exports = [
   {
     char: 'A',
   },
+  {
+    char: '대', // Ensure multi byte utf-8 characters also fit into a single character column
+  },
   {
     large: () => [...new Array(1000)].map(alphabetize).join(''),
   },